Ultra-Fast Self-Adaptive Phase-Error Calibration for Dual MZI-based Silicon Photonic Switch Fabric

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Suda, Satoshi; Matsuura, Hiroyuki; Suzuki, Keijiro; Ikeda, Kazuhiro; Namiki, Shu; Nakamura, Fumi; Noriki, Akihiro; Murao, Tadashi; Amano, Takeru

Abstract:
Fully automatic phase-error calibration across a 256 dual Mach-Zehnder-interferometers-based 8×8 non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric with polarization diversity was demonstrated. We achieve an ultra-fast and highly accurate calibration by only sampling 3.6 measurement points for one switch state, close to the theoretical limit of 3.