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: 0211 other engineering and technologies; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

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