Silicon Photonic Flex-LIONS for Bandwidth-Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Xiao, Xian, Proietti, Roberto, Liu, Gengchen, Lu, Hongbo, Fotouhi, Pouya, Werner, Sebastian, Zhang, Yu, Yoo, S. J. Ben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Architecture; Arrayed waveguide grating router; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Energy efficiency; Fabrics; Insertion loss; Multicast; optical interconnections; Optical interconnects; Optical switches; photonic integrated circuits; Photonics; Ports; Power efficiency; Reconfiguration; Silicon; silicon photonics; Switches; Switching; Topology; Waveguide routers; Wavelength routeing

This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of silicon photonic (SiPh) Flex-LIONS, a bandwidth-reconfigurable SiPh switching fabric based on wavelength routing in arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs) and space switching. Compared with the state-of-the-art bandwidth-reconfigurable sw...