TY - GEN
T1 - A 3.9ns 8.9mW 4x4 silicon photonic switch hybrid integrated with CMOS driver
AU - Rylyakov, Alexander
AU - Schow, Clint
AU - Lee, Benjamin
AU - Green, William
AU - Van Campenhout, Joris
AU - Yang, Min
AU - Doany, Fuad
AU - Assefa, Solomon
AU - Jahnes, Christopher
AU - Kash, Jeffrey
AU - Vlasov, Yurii
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The emerging field of silicon photonics [1-3] targets monolithic integration of optical components in the CMOS process, potentially enabling high bandwidth, high density interconnects with dramatically reduced cost and power dissipation. A broadband photonic switch is a key component of reconfigurable networks which retain data in the optical domain, thus bypassing the latency, bandwidth and power overheads of opto-electronic conversion. Additionally, with WDM channels, multiple data streams can be routed simultaneously using a single optical device. Although many types of discrete silicon photonic switches have been reported [4-6], very few of them have been shown to operate with CMOS drivers. Earlier, we have reported two different 2x2 optical switches wirebond packaged with 90nm CMOS drivers [7,8]. The 2x2 switch reported in [7] is based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), while the one reported in [8] is based on a two-ring resonator.
AB - The emerging field of silicon photonics [1-3] targets monolithic integration of optical components in the CMOS process, potentially enabling high bandwidth, high density interconnects with dramatically reduced cost and power dissipation. A broadband photonic switch is a key component of reconfigurable networks which retain data in the optical domain, thus bypassing the latency, bandwidth and power overheads of opto-electronic conversion. Additionally, with WDM channels, multiple data streams can be routed simultaneously using a single optical device. Although many types of discrete silicon photonic switches have been reported [4-6], very few of them have been shown to operate with CMOS drivers. Earlier, we have reported two different 2x2 optical switches wirebond packaged with 90nm CMOS drivers [7,8]. The 2x2 switch reported in [7] is based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), while the one reported in [8] is based on a two-ring resonator.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746293
DO - 10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746293
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955723320
SN - 9781612843001
T3 - Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference
SP - 222
EP - 223
BT - 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers, ISSCC 2011
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2011
Y2 - 20 February 2011 through 24 February 2011
ER -