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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

16× 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Lu, S Zhao, L Zhou, D Li, Z Li, M Wang, X Li… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

Seven-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line based on silicon integration

J **e, L Zhou, Z Li, J Wang, J Chen - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We design, fabricate, and characterize a 7-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line
consisting of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) switches on the silicon photonics platform …

Integrated optical delay lines: a review and perspective

L Zhou, X Wang, L Lu, J Chen - Chinese Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical delay lines (ODLs) are one of the key enabling components in photonic integrated
circuits and systems. They are widely used in time-division multiplexing, optical signal …

16× 16 silicon optical switch based on dual-ring-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometers

Z Guo, L Lu, L Zhou, L Shen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report a nanosecond 16× 16 silicon electro-optic switch chip based on a
Benes architecture. The switch adopts dual-ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometers as …

Broadband continuously tunable microwave photonic delay line based on cascaded silicon microrings

W Shan, L Lu, X Wang, G Zhou, Y Liu, J Chen… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel broadband continuously tunable microwave photonic delay line
consisting of a modulator, a four-stage microring resonator delay line, a tunable optical …

Design and Fabrication of Low-Insertion-Loss and Low-Crosstalk Broadband Mach–Zehnder Silicon Photonic Switches

N Dupuis, BG Lee, AV Rylyakov, DM Kuchta… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present the design, fabrication, and measurement results of low-insertion-loss and low-
crosstalk broadband Mach–Zehnder switches for nanosecond-scale optical data routing …

Broadband 4 4 Nonblocking Silicon Electrooptic Switches Based on Mach–Zehnder Interferometers

L Lu, L Zhou, Z Li, X Li, J Chen - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a broadband 4× 4 nonblocking optical switch with Mach-Zehnder interferometers
(MZIs) as switch elements on a silicon platform. Silicon resistive heaters are used for phase …

Programmable optical filter in thin-film lithium niobate with simultaneous tunability of extinction ratio and wavelength

S Hou, P Chen, M Shah, I Briggs, W **ng, Z Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-chip optical filters are of key importance to many modern applications such as optical
interconnections and wavelength division multiplexing systems. In all these scenarios …