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High-performance and power-efficient 2${\times}$2 optical switch on Silicon-on-Insulator

Optics 2015-09-10 v1

Abstract

A compact (15{\mu}m×{\times}{\mu}m) and highly-optimized 2×{\times}2 optical switch is demonstrated on a CMOS-compatible photonic crystal technology. On-chip insertion loss are below 1dB, static and dynamic contrast are 40dB and >20dB respectively. Owing to efficient thermo-optic design, the power consumption is below 3 mW while the switching time is 1 {\mu}s.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1506.00803,
  title  = {High-performance and power-efficient 2${\times}$2 optical switch on Silicon-on-Insulator},
  author = {Zheng Han and Gregory Moille and Xavier Checoury and Jérôme Bourderionnet and Philippe Boucaud and Alfredo De Rossi and Sylvain Combrié},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00803},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 6 figures

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