Optical Network Switch for Dynamically Reconfigurable Single- and Multi-cast Topologies
Gregory R. Steinbrecher, Hemonth G. Rao, Nicholas C. Harris, Jacob Mower, Tom W. Baehr-Jones, Michael Hochberg, Vincent W. S. Chan, Dirk Englund, Scott A. Hamilton · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2017
We present a network switch in the silicon-on-insulator platform capable of redistributing light to arbitrary outputs with continuously reconfigurable splitting ratios. We demonstrate software defined switching and physical-layer multicast of gigabit Ethernet.