Non-blocking 4x4 electro-optic silicon switch for on-chip photonic networks

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-54

  Yang, Min ^a   Green, William M J ^a   Assefa, Solomon ^a   Van Campenhout, Joris ^b   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Jahnes, Christopher V ^a   Doany, Fuad E ^a   Schow, Clint L ^a   Kash, Jeffrey A ^a   Vlasov, Yurii A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-TALK LEVELS; DATA TRANSMISSION; ELECTRO-OPTICS; FULLY COMPATIBLE; HIGH-SPEED; INPUT-OUTPUT; MACH-ZEHNDER; NON-BLOCKING; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL DATA; PHOTONIC NETWORK; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STANDARD CMOS; SWITCH STATE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78651379627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000047     Document Type: Article

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