Experimental Study of Ultra-Low Power Consumption Thermo-Optic Silica-on-Silicon Switches

01 January 2007

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Abstract: We present a study of ultra-low power thermo-optic waveguide switch designs. Through optimization we achieved under 25mW power consumption for standard index-contrast silica- on-silicon material with reduced polarization dependent switching performance. 2007 Optical Society of America