Increasingly, optical cross connects are being proposed as the basis for various photonic packet switching nodes. Combining optical switches with semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) has been shown to be a very effective method in creating a more scaleable cross connect which can have lower loss and crosstalk than a simple gate array. Building upon this concept, we demonstrate a very compact 4/spl times/4 (2/spl times/2 mm/sup 2/) monolithic optical cross connect using sixteen 1/spl times/2 optically amplified suppressed interference switches (OASIS) While good crosstalk suppression performance (>35 dB) was achieved, practical devices will require a reduction of the insertion loss. Two efforts devoted to this goal, namely, the addition of a spot-size convertor and a waveguide tuning mirror were demonstrated to good effect.


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    Titel :

    Optical crossbar switches on InP


    Beteiligte:
    Fish, G.A. (Autor:in) / Mason, B. (Autor:in) / Coldren, L.A. (Autor:in) / DenBaars, S.P. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.1999


    Format / Umfang :

    239905 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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