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N × N Reconfigurable Nonblocking Polymer/Silica Hybrid Planar Optical Switch Matrix Based on Total-Internal-Reflection Effect
Author(s) -
L. Liang,
K. Zhang,
C. T. Zheng,
X. Zhang,
L. Qin,
Y. Q. Ning,
D. M. Zhang,
L. J. Wang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2017.2718019
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
We present a reconfigurable model for N × N non-blocking optical switch matrix (OSM) constituted by N(N-1)/2 2 × 2 thermo-optic polymer/silica hybrid total-internal-reflection switch elements. The number of the elements in the general model is reduced by about 50% compared to the reported all nonblocking OSM, in addition, the proposed model is more compact in footprint and more power-efficient. Each element consists of crossed multimode polymer/silica hybrid waveguides and a heater electrode at the switching node. A switching power of 53.9 mW is required at 1550-nm wavelength to drop the crosstalk below -28.0 dB. Measurements result in a rise time of 421.5/410.1 μs (O1/O2), a fall time of 534.2/464.6 μs (O1 /O2), and crosstalk of -27.6 and -29.1 dB under cross state and bar state, respectively. Subtracting coupling losses, propagation losses of the device under cross state and bar state are about 1.0 and 1.8 dB, respectively. The fabricated 3 × 3 and 4 × 4 reconfigurable non-blocking OSMs using three and six switch elements at sizes of 16.0 mm × 6.8 mm and 26.0 mm × 6.8 mm all show excellent switching performances, and the insertion losses are less than 3.6 and 7.2 dB, respectively.

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