Broadband Silicon Photonic Electrooptic Switch for Photonic Interconnection Networks

Abstract

We present a silicon photonic microring resonator electrooptic switch, demonstrate error-free switching of single-channel data rates up to 40 Gb/s, and characterize the device using bit-error-rate and power penalty metrics. We experimentally verify penalty-free switching of single-channel data rates up to 10 Gb/s, and low-penalty switching up to 40 Gb/s, firmly establishing the feasibility of this switch for high-performance photonic networks-on-chip.