Low-Crosstalk 8×8 Silicon Photonic Switch Fabric with Dual-Stage MZI Cells
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Bao, Peng; Yao, Chunhui; Talli, Giuseppe; Kuschnerov, Maxim; Penty, Richard; Cheng, Qixiang
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical losses
Network topology
Optical switches
Crosstalk
Silicon photonics
Fabrics
Optical fiber communication
- Language
We demonstrate a strictly non-blocking 8×8 silicon photonic switch fabric with centrally placed dual-stage MZI cells that effectively suppress first-order crosstalk. This thermally actuated device exhibits on-chip loss of