Si-SiN-SiN Tri-Layer Strictly Non-blocking 8×8 Microring-Based Optical Switch
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sun, Bohao; Zhang, Ziyao; Chen, Minjia; Yao, Chunhui; Bao, Peng; Shi, Zhitian; Cheng, Qixiang; Bergman, Keren; Penty, Richard
- 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
Optical switches
Crosstalk
Extinction ratio
Loss measurement
Optical fiber communication
Distance measurement
- Language
We report a Si-SiN-SiN tri-layer switch-and-select 8×8 optical switch with 128 thermally-driven microring-resonators. Crosstalk ratio and on-chip loss are measured in the range of -33.2 to -50.8dB and 2.1 to 10.5dB, respectively, with >70GHz passband.