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Die Level Release of Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Jonas Jacobs

We demonstrate a die level release process for silicon photonic MEMS structures, that is compatible with dies from a standard silicon photonics foundry process which are only several square millimeters in size. ...

IEEE2016

Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

In this letter, we demonstrate a scalable addressing scheme for silicon photonic MEMS switches. For a crossbar architecture switch fabric of dimension N x N, the row/column addressing scales with 2 . N electrodes, much reduced from the N-2 electrodes in in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers

Niels Quack

Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an attractive platform for high-density photonic integrated circuits with low manuf ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Highly Scalable Digital Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

Optical circuit switches with fast switching times can provide rapidly reconfigurable bandwidth in data center networks. Silicon photonic switches are attractive candidates with their fast response times and CMOS process compatibility. In this paper, we re ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Large-Scale Silicon Photonic Switches

Niels Quack

Large-scale (50x50 and 64x64) integrated photonic switches have been realized by combining silicon photonics with efficient micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) switching mechanisms. Low on-chip loss (0.058dB/port) and sub-microsecond switching time have ...

Ieee2016

Large-scale silicon photonic switches with movable directional couplers

Niels Quack

Fast optical circuit switches (OCSs) with high port count offer reconfigurable bandwidth in optical networks and have the potential to significantly increase the performance and efficiency of modern datacenters. In this paper, we report on a new type of in ...

2015

Large-Port-Count MEMS Silicon Photonics Switches

Niels Quack

Highly integrated optical circuit switch (OCS) with large port counts (~100x100) is achievable by combining silicon photonics and MEMS technologies. We will review the design trade-offs, performance scaling, and the current state of the art. ...

OSA2015

50x50 Digital Silicon Photonic Switches with MEMS-Actuated Adiabatic Couplers

Niels Quack

We report on monolithically integrated 50x50 digital silicon photonic switches with MEMS actuation, sub-microsecond switching time, low optical insertion loss (

OSA2015

Highly Scalable Digital Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015