Method for crosstalk and power optimization in silicon photonic based switch matrices

H Mehrvar, Y Qian, P Dumais, DJ Goodwill… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
Crosstalk can be suppressed in photonic switching fabrics by activating unused photonic
elements in a manner that manipulates the inactive connections and inhibits the propa …

Method for crosstalk and power optimization in silicon photonic based switch matrices

H Mehrvar, Y Qian, P Dumais, DJ Goodwill… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
Recursive optimization algorithms can be used to determine which idle photonic switching
elements to configure in N× N switching fabrics to achieve crosstalk suppression. Different …

Routing Methods for Dual Plane Switch Architectures

H Mehrvar, Y Qian - US Patent App. 14/844,857, 2016 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for routing signals through a photonic switch are provided. Optical
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR) requirements for signals to be concurrently routed through the …

Dynamic phase shift compensation for free carrier effect photonic switches

J Jiang, DJ Goodwill, E Bernier - US Patent 10,372,013, 2019 - Google Patents
Monitoring output power levels of a carrier-effect based switching cell allows phase errors
resulting from driving a PIN or PN junction of the switching cell to be dynamically …

Designing photonic switching systems utilizing equalized drivers

BG Lee, JE Proesel, AV Rylyakov, CL Schow - US Patent 8,775,992, 2014 - Google Patents
Int. Cl. Designing a photonics Switching system is provided. A pho G06F 17/50(2006.01)
tonic Switch diode is designed to attain each performance (52) US Cl. metric in a plurality of …

Optical amplification in photonic switched crossconnect systems

D Blumenthal - US Patent 7,379,668, 2008 - Google Patents
4,053,845. A 10/1977 Gould amplify the optical signals before Supplying them to the
4,432,599 A 2, 1984 McMahon optical switch core. Once in the optical switch core, the …

Photonic switching including photonic pass-through and add/drop capabilities

J McNicol, BO Narayanan, OA Gerstel - US Patent 6,853,763, 2005 - Google Patents
A photonic switching apparatus includes primary photonic switching logic to perform
photonic pass-through and add/drop functions and secondary photonic switching logic to …

Apparatus and methods for scalable photonic packet architectures using PIC switches

H Mehrvar, H Ma, E Bernier - US Patent 9,658,403, 2017 - Google Patents
Embodiments are provided for scalable photonic packet fabric architectures using photonic
integrated circuit switches. The architectures use compact size silicon photonic circuits that …

Totally photonic evanescent switch for optical fibers

KA James, JW Yee - US Patent 6,661,949, 2003 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A totally photonic Switch having a pair of D-optical fibers by which optical
energy can be efficiently coupled at high Speed from one D-fiber to the other. The cores of …

Network Switch With Augmented Input and Output Capabilities

H Mehrvar - US Patent App. 14/972,501, 2017 - Google Patents
US20170176688A1 - Network Switch With Augmented Input and Output Capabilities -
Google Patents US20170176688A1 - Network Switch With Augmented Input and Output …