Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
Conferences > OFC > 2011 > OThM > OThM3
  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2011
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
  • paper OThM3
  • •https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2011.OThM3

Low Power and Broadband 2 × 2 Silicon Thermo-Optic Switch

Christopher T. DeRose, Michael R. Watts, Ralph W. Young, Douglas C. Trotter, Gregory N. Nielson, William A. Zortman, and Rohan D. Kekatpure

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

We present a 2×2 silicon thermo-optic switch which requires a switching power of only ∼12.5 mW and has a response time of 5.4 µs. The measured extinction ratio of the switch is >∼20 dB across the C and L communications bands.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Ultra-broadband low-loss 2×2 MZI (Mach-Zehnder interferometer)-based thermo-optic switch with bent directional couplers on silicon

Sitao Chen and Daoxin Dai
M3I.4 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2016

Ultra-Broadband, Low-Power, 2×2 Electro-Optic Switch using Sub-Micron Silicon Waveguides

Joris Van Campenhout, William M. J. Green, Solomon Assefa, and Yurii A. Vlasov
OMP2 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2010

High-speed and broadband electro-optic silicon switch with submilliwatt switching power

Po Dong, Shirong Liao, Hong Liang, Roshanak Shafiiha, Dazeng Feng, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy, and Mehdi Asghari
OWZ4 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2011

View More...
Select as filters
Select Topics Cancel
Top
       
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies.
Privacy | Terms of Use