Electrically-reconfigurable integrated photonic switches
Date
2004Source Title
The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004.
Print ISSN
1092-8081
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
455 - 456
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We report remotely electrically reconfigurable photonic switches that intimately integrate waveguide electroabsorption modulators with surface-normal photodiodes, avoiding conventional electronics. These switches exhibit full C-band wavelength conversion at 5 Gb/s and are remotely reconfigurable within tens of nanoseconds.
Keywords
AbsorptionBandwidth
Modulators
Optoelectronic devices
Photodiodes
Semiconducting indium gallium arsenide
Semiconductor quantum wells
Telecommunication traffic
Wave propagation
Waveguides
Electroabsorption modulators
Electronic domains
High-speed electrical signals
Switch architecture
Optical switches