Accelerating Switching Speed of Thermo-optic MZI Silicon-Photonic Switches with “Turbo Pulse” in PWM Control

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2017.w4e.3
• Publication Date: 2017-03-10T12:38:11Z
• Authors: Hiroyuki Matsuura; Satoshi Suda; Ken Tanizawa; Keijiro Suzuki; Kazuhiro Ikeda; Hitoshi Kawashima; Shu Namiki
• Keywords: Header; Switching time; Optical burst switching

We implemented a novel heater control scheme with high-energy header pulses applied to silicon Mach-Zehnder switches. Four five times faster switching time (5.8 μs and 4.4 μs) was achieved for heating-up cooling-down operations.