Fig. 1 Architecture of the 32 x 4 optical switch and its elements (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Fig. 1 Architecture of the 32 x 4 optical switch and its elements

Caption

a Schematic and topology of 32 x 4 switch. b Temporal response of thermal-optical MZI switch. c Structure and optical response of MZI with two directional couplers when the heater is OFF. d Structure and optical response of the MZI with directional coupler and MMI when the heater is OFF. e Structure and optical response of MZI with two MMIs when the heater is OFF. Responses include fiber to chip coupling.

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by Xiaotian Zhu, Xiang Wang, Yanlu Huang, Liyan Wu, Chunfei Zhao, Mingzhu Xiao, Luyi Wang, Roy Davidson, Yanni Ou, Brent E. Little and Sai T. Chu

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