A silicon Mach Zehnder comb switch for low power operation in on-chip optical data communications

L. Sánchez; A. Brimont; S. Lechago; A. Griol; P. Sanchis

doi:10.1117/12.2052257

1 May 2014 A silicon Mach Zehnder comb switch for low power operation in on-chip optical data communications

L. Sánchez, A. Brimont, S. Lechago, A. Griol, P. Sanchis

Proceedings Volume 9133, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits IV; 91330P (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052257
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

A novel method to significantly decrease power consumption in a silicon switch based on an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) structure is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A radical power consumption reduction up to 50% is achieved for switching digital data at bit rates from 10 to 30Gbps with respect to a conventional switch based on a symmetric MZI. Furthermore, the broadband performance of the proposed silicon MZI comb switch is also demonstrated by transmitting a 120 Gbps DWDM data stream.

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L. Sánchez, A. Brimont, S. Lechago, A. Griol, and P. Sanchis "A silicon Mach Zehnder comb switch for low power operation in on-chip optical data communications", Proc. SPIE 9133, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits IV, 91330P (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052257

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