Broadband 4×4 non-blocking optical switch fabric based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhou, Linjie; Lu, Liangjun; Li, Zuxiang; Chen, Jianping
- Source
- 2014 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on. :1-4 Nov, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical switches
Optical waveguides
Crosstalk
Tuning
Silicon
Insertion loss
Silicon photonics
Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Language
We demonstrate a silicon 4×4 non-blocking Benes switch fabric consisting of three stages of tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Measurements show that the insertion loss is around 10 dB and the crosstalk is below −10 dB over a 40 nm wide wavelength range.