[HTML][HTML] State of the art and perspectives on silicon photonic switches

X Tu, C Song, T Huang, Z Chen, H Fu - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
… based on the configuration of the above switch engines. We also demonstrate our latest work
in the prototype of silicon photonic switches used for the telecommunication network nodes …

Nonvolatile electrically reconfigurable integrated photonic switch enabled by a silicon PIN diode heater

J Zheng, Z Fang, C Wu, S Zhu, P Xu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… To realize multi-port and broadband photonic switches, our photonic switching units can be
integrated on the recently reported three-waveguide directional coupler structure. [ 27 ] The …

Wavelength-selective 2  ×  2 optical switch based on a Ge2Sb2Te5-assisted microring

C Zhang, M Zhang, Y Xie, Y Shi, R Kumar… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
… The 2 × 2 optical switch is switched ON or OFF by modifying the GST state to be crystalline
… finite-difference method shows that the extinction ratio of the designed photonic switch is ∼ …

Optimized management of ultra-wideband photonics switching systems assisted by machine learning

I Khan, L Tunesi, M Umar Masood, E Ghillino… - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
… SDN based model of a photonic switching fabric that allows … wideband optical switch design
based on photonic integrated … simulation of the photonic switch architecture. Results show …

Photonic switched optically connected memory: An approach to address memory challenges in deep learning

Z Zhu, GD Guglielmo, Q Cheng, M Glick… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
… Reconfigurable photonic … a photonic switched optically connected memory system architecture
that tackles the memory challenges while showing the functionality of optical switching for …

Non-volatile reconfigurable silicon photonics based on phase-change materials

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We then move onto reviewing the integrated photonic switches based on PCMs, including
device geometry, footprint, and performance. The subsequent applications based on one or …

Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics

Q Guo, R Sekine, L Ledezma, R Nehra, DJ Dean… - … Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
… cavity photon lifetime, which unavoidably increases the switching … Therefore, all-optical
switching in solid-state photonic platforms … switches in terms of the intrinsic switching time and the …

ITO-based microheaters for reversible multi-stage switching of phase-change materials: towards miniaturized beyond-binary reconfigurable integrated photonics

H Taghinejad, S Abdollahramezani, AA Eftekhar… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
… The success of reconfigurable PCM-based photonic platforms is entangled with the
reliable control of the PCM phase, which can be reversibly switched between amorphous and …

Broadband polarization/mode insensitive 3-dB optical coupler for silicon photonic switches

H Xu, G Zhang, KHR Mojaver… - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
… Proposed multimode switch In this section, a multimode photonic switch matrix is developed
… wavelength division multiplexed (CWDM) optical switching system, as shown in Fig. 7. The …

Multi‐level electro‐thermal switching of optical phase‐change materials using graphene

C Ríos, Y Zhang, MY Shalaginov… - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… achieve temperatures up to 900 K to switch a PCM cell placed directly on top of the heater. …
switching of PCM using single-layer graphene microheaters. We further realize switching