We study a 32 × 32 silicon photonic path-independent insertion loss switch used as a programmable multiport interferometer, with a robustness to optical losses appropriate for many classical and q…
High-port-count optical switches are expected to resolve the envisaged bandwidth and power crunch in intra-data center networks stemming from the slowdown of Moore's Law. This paper briefly reviews…
Silicon photonic switches with integrated p-i-n junctions can exhibit fast switching on the order of nanoseconds, enabling prospective optical networks with very fast reconfiguration times. However…
We review our recent results in multi-port strictly non-blocking optical switches based on silicon photonics. Silicon photonics switches are one of the most important devices to realize future data…
Silicon-based optical media present several desirable properties for a wide range of applications. Herein, we propose a novel hybrid integration scheme that combines a silicon photonics platform an…
The design of a novel 1 × M fold-back type wavelength selective switch (WSS), which has fewer waveguide crossings than a conventional integrated WSS, is reported. The WSS is composed of interleave…
We investigate a large-scale and fast optical circuit switch system that uses digital coherent technologies. The achievable port count is expanded by introducing colorless detection which eliminate…
In this article, we report the development of a strictly non-blocking 8 × 8 silicon photonics switch designed to operate in the O-band. This 8 × 8 switch is based on path-independent insertion-lo…
We propose and demonstrate a port-alternated switch-and-select architecture for planar waveguide-based optical switches. The proposed architecture reduces the number of intersections on a path, whi…