Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack; Tae Joon Seok; Sangyoon Han; Richard S. Muller; Ming C. Wu

doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2515106

Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack
, Tae Joon Seok
, Sangyoon Han
, Richard S. Muller
, Ming C. Wu

Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering

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Abstract

In this letter, we demonstrate a scalable addressing scheme for silicon photonic MEMS switches. For a crossbar architecture switch fabric of dimension N × N, the row/column addressing scales with 2N electrodes, much reduced from the N2 electrodes in individual addressing. It also compares favorably with other optical switch architectures, including path-independent insertion loss, Beneš, or switch-and-select networks, in terms of electrical interface. We have designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized the performance of a 4 × 4 silicon photonic MEMS switch.

Original language	English
Article number	7378300
Pages (from-to)	561-564
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2515106
State	Published - 1 Mar 2016

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Microelectromechanical systems
Optical switches
Silicon photonics

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