[TuF2] Reconfigurable Switches

[TuF2-2] Demonstration of a Spectrally-Partitioned 4x4 Crossbar Switch with 3 Drops per Cross-point

〇Takako Hirokawa, Aaron Maharry, Roger Helkey, John E. Bowers, Adel A. M. Saleh, Clint L. Schow (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Keywords:Optoelectronic and all-optical switches, Wavelength switching and routing technologies, Energy efficient switch and network architectures and algorithms

We present the theory and realization of a spectrally-partitioned 4x4 crossbar switch, with three microrings per cross-point having disjoint resonance regions within an FSR. We also describe an associated energy efficient, non-blocking wavelength assignment algorithm.