[TuF2] Reconfigurable Switches

[TuF2-5] Multi-Stage Wavelength Locking in a 4 × 4 Silicon Electro-Optic Switch Based on Dual-Ring Resonators

Qingming Zhu, Xinhong Jiang, Ruiyuan Cao, Hongxia Zhang, Ciyuan Qiu, 〇Yikai Su (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China)

Keywords:Switching Technologies, Subsystems and Advanced Functionality, Wavelength locking, Silicon photonics

We experimentally demonstrate a multi-stage wavelength locking scheme based on saddle point searching in a dual-ring based 4×4 electro-optic switch. Three-stage switching elements can be aligned to the signal wavelength with initial ≤2-nm wavelength misalignments.