30 December 2020 Ultrafast reconfigurable nanoscale optical switch based on photonic crystal waveguide
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

We propose reconfigurable photonic switches with very low input power, ultracompact size, fast response, and low optical loss for high-speed optical network and on-chip interconnect applications. The photonic crystal waveguide-based nanostructure is used to realize the reconfigurable 3  ×  3 and 4  ×  4 optical switches. The two different operating wavelengths of 1550 and 1630 nm play a significant role in the nanophotonic switching platform. The reconfiguration of optical signal path is effectively attained using these wavelengths with low delay time and high data rate. The performance of nanoswitch parameters is numerically investigated by the finite-difference time-domain method. The proposed optical switch is designed with a low input power of 0.5 mW, fast response time of 607.33 fs, and high data rate of 1.646 Tbps. This high-performance device can be suitable for lightwave communication network, quantum computing, and nanoscale photonic integrated systems.

© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2020/$28.00 © 2020 SPIE
Ramakrishnan Rajasekar and Gopal Thavasi Raja "Ultrafast reconfigurable nanoscale optical switch based on photonic crystal waveguide," Optical Engineering 59(12), 125107 (30 December 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.59.12.125107
Received: 17 October 2020; Accepted: 7 December 2020; Published: 30 December 2020
Lens.org Logo
CITATIONS
Cited by 1 scholarly publication.
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Switches

Optical switching

Waveguides

Ultrafast phenomena

Switching

Photonic crystals

Signal attenuation

RELATED CONTENT

Design and evaluation of optical switching architectures
Proceedings of SPIE (September 01 1991)
Photonic crystal slow light devices in silicon
Proceedings of SPIE (February 13 2008)
Architectures for optical TDM switching
Proceedings of SPIE (December 17 1992)

Back to Top