A Review of Silicon‐Based Integrated Optical Switches

X Chen, J Lin, K Wang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, silicon‐integrated optical circuits have attracted intensive interests, thanks to the
compatibility with the complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology that …

Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Principles, fundamentals, and applications of programmable integrated photonics

D Pérez, I Gasulla, P Das Mahapatra… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Programmable integrated photonics is an emerging new paradigm that aims at designing
common integrated optical hardware resource configurations, capable of implementing an …

Silicon photonic switch fabrics: Technology and architecture

BG Lee, N Dupuis - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic switching technologies show potential for transforming communication networks
across diverse markets from long-haul to short-reach distance scales due to their large …

Integrated silicon photonic microresonators: emerging technologies

Z Yao, K Wu, BX Tan, J Wang, Y Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is becoming the leading technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
due to large-scale integration, low cost, and high-volume productions enabled by …

Ultra-high-contrast and tunable-bandwidth filter using cascaded high-order silicon microring filters

JR Ong, R Kumar, S Mookherjea - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-contrast optical filtering is demonstrated using cascaded silicon microrings. We report
an experimental measurement of a record 100 dB pass-band to stop-band contrast, tunable …

Efficient modulation of 1.55 μm radiation with gated graphene on a silicon microring resonator

C Qiu, W Gao, R Vajtai, PM Ajayan, J Kono, Q Xu - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
The gate-controllability of the Fermi-edge onset of interband absorption in graphene can be
utilized to modulate near-infrared radiation in the telecommunication band. However, a high …

State of the art and perspectives on silicon photonic switches

X Tu, C Song, T Huang, Z Chen, H Fu - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, silicon photonic switches are increasingly believed to be potential
candidates for replacing the electrical switches in the applications of telecommunication …

High-order microring resonators with bent couplers for a box-like filter response

P Chen, S Chen, X Guan, Y Shi, D Dai - optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
High-order microring resonator (MRR) filters with bent directional couplers are proposed
and demonstrated to achieve a box-like filter response. When using bent couplers, the …

High-extinction ratio integrated photonic filters for silicon quantum photonics

M Piekarek, D Bonneau, S Miki, T Yamashita… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present the generation of quantum-correlated photon pairs and subsequent pump
rejection across two silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits. Incoherently cascaded …