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We experimentally demonstrate the lossless transmission of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signals through a silicon-photonics 4 × 4 switch with a flip-chip bonded 4-channel semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). We first optimized the input power and gain of the SOA-integrated switch to obtain the optimum operation point in terms of the transmitted signal quality. We then performed simultaneous transmission of 8-ch, 32-Gbaud, SP 16-QAM WDM (800 Gb/s) signals through all the four paths of the switch. The effect of crosstalk on the switch was very small, and thus could not be observed. We also examined multistage (up to four stages) transmission of the signals with circulating configurations. We show that even for a 4-stage transmission, the bit error rate of the transmitted signal is below the 20% forward-error-correction limit. Finally, we discuss approaches to improve the optical signal-to-noise ratio of the transmitted signals to enlarge the signal quality margin and increase the possible number of the cascading stages and/or WDM channels for wide applications.

SOA-Integrated Silicon Photonics Switch and Its Lossless Multistage Transmission of High-Capacity WDM Signals