Design of a 1×2 wavelength selective switch using an arrayed-waveguide grating with fold-back paths on a silicon platform
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Asakura, Hideaki; Sugiyama, Koki; Tsuda, Hiroyuki
- Source
- 2016 21st OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) held jointly with 2016 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS) OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) held jointly with 2016 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS), 2016 21st. :1-3 Jul, 2016
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Optical switches
Silicon
Crosstalk
Adaptive optics
Wavelength selective switch
Arrayed-waveguide grating
Fold-back
Interleaver
- Language
A 1×2 wavelength selective switch was designed. It consists of an arrayed-waveguide grating with fold-back paths, three 1×4 interleavers, and 1×2 switches. The number of crossings is independent of the number of wavelength channels.