A fast 4-channel silicon switch using an AWG with 12 carrier depletion modulators

Abstract

Abstract-We demonstrate a 1 × 4 optical phased array based switch in silicon-on-insulator using 12 interdigitated carrierdepletion based silicon modulators. The device footprint is 3.39 × 0.57 mm 2 using 3.2mm long phase modulators. The measured insertion loss is -6.0 dB and the crosstalk is better than -13 dB.