{"title":"Broadband 4×4 non-blocking optical switch fabric based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers","authors":"Linjie Zhou, Liangjun Lu, Zuxiang Li, Jianping Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987092","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a silicon 4×4 non-blocking Benes switch fabric consisting of three stages of tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Measurements show that the insertion loss is around 10 dB and the crosstalk is below -10 dB over a 40 nm wide wavelength range.","PeriodicalId":364683,"journal":{"name":"2014 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2014 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987092","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We demonstrate a silicon 4×4 non-blocking Benes switch fabric consisting of three stages of tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Measurements show that the insertion loss is around 10 dB and the crosstalk is below -10 dB over a 40 nm wide wavelength range.