Silica-based waveguide-type 16 x 16 optical switch module incorporating driving circuits

Author

Shibata, T. ; Okuno, M. ; Goh, T. ; Watanabe, T. ; Yasu, M. ; Itoh, M. ; Ishii, M. ; Hibino, Y. ; Sugita, A. ; Himeno, A.

Author_Institution

NTT Photonics Labs., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

15

Issue

9

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1300

Lastpage

1302

Abstract

We developed a 16/spl times/16 optical matrix switch module in which we incorporated a silica-based thermooptic switch chip and driving circuits. The module exhibited excellent levels of performance, namely a low insertion loss and a high extinction ratio. This is the largest scale waveguide-type matrix switch module yet reported. Driving circuits with a serial-to-parallel control signal conversion function enabled us to realize a new module structure that is both simple and flexible for use with larger scale switches.

Keywords

driver circuits; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; modules; optical losses; thermo-optical devices; driving circuits; high extinction ratio; low insertion loss; module structure; optical matrix switch module; serial-to-parallel control signal conversion function; silica-based thermooptic switch chip; silica-based waveguide-type optical switch module; waveguide-type matrix switch module; Extinction ratio; Laboratories; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Switching circuits; Telegraphy; Telephony; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.816115

Filename

1224612