TY - JOUR
T1 - On-chip SOI Delay Line Bank for Optical Buffers and Time Slot Interchangers
AU - Moralis-Pegios, Miltiadis
AU - Mourgias-Alexandris, George
AU - Terzenidis, Nikos
AU - Cherchi, Matteo
AU - Harjanne, Mikko
AU - Aalto, Timo
AU - Miliou, Amalia
AU - Pleros, N.
AU - Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We demonstrate integrated Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) spiral waveguides with record-high 2.6ns/mm² on-chip delay efficiency performing as delay bank stage in variable optical delay buffering and Time-Slot Interchanger (TSI) applications with 10Gb/s optical packets. The micro-scale SOI chip comprises three integrated waveguide delay elements of different length, providing variable delays of 6.5nsec, 11.3nsec and 17.2nsec, respectively. Utilizing two SOA-MZI wavelength converters and on-chip packet delay, error-free on-chip variable delay buffering from 6.5nsec up to 17.2nsec and successful timeslot interchanging for 10Gb/s optical packets are presented.
AB - We demonstrate integrated Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) spiral waveguides with record-high 2.6ns/mm² on-chip delay efficiency performing as delay bank stage in variable optical delay buffering and Time-Slot Interchanger (TSI) applications with 10Gb/s optical packets. The micro-scale SOI chip comprises three integrated waveguide delay elements of different length, providing variable delays of 6.5nsec, 11.3nsec and 17.2nsec, respectively. Utilizing two SOA-MZI wavelength converters and on-chip packet delay, error-free on-chip variable delay buffering from 6.5nsec up to 17.2nsec and successful timeslot interchanging for 10Gb/s optical packets are presented.
KW - integrated delay lines
KW - Optical buffering
KW - Photonic integrated circuits
KW - Silicon photonics
KW - Time-Slot Interchanger
KW - OtaNano
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034224156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2017.2773146
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2017.2773146
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034224156
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 30
SP - 31
EP - 34
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 1
ER -