[J1] Photonic Integration Circuits I

[J1-3] Low-Crosstalk Bandwidth Expansion in 32 × 32 Silicon Optical Switch with Port-Exchanged Mach-Zehnder Switch

Best Paper Award

〇Keijiro Suzuki, Ryotaro Konoike, Satoshi Suda, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Shu Namiki, Hitoshi Kawashima, Kazuhiro Ikeda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

キーワード：Photonic integrated circuits , Packaging technology of photonic devices and circuits

We demonstrate 14.2-nm bandwidth for -20-dB crosstalk in a 32 × 32 strictly-non-blocking Si switch, corresponding to four-times expansion from conventional design. The cross-port extinction that exhibits inherently low wavelength dependency is exploited.