Liu, Y;
Odedeyi, T;
Zervas, G;
(2024)
Switching in microseconds: design of a 5 × 5 non-blocking free space optical switch at 1550nm with a piezo-actuator and beam-steering lens system.
Optics Express
, 32
(18)
pp. 32448-32467.
10.1364/OE.532830.
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Abstract
Modern data center networks (DCNs) require optical switches with ultra-low loss, ultra-fast reconfiguration speed, high throughput, and high extinction ratio performances. In this work, we propose the design of a 5 × 5 optical switch at 1550 nm based on a piezo-actuator serving as a translating input optical source, and a beam-steering system built of spherical lenses to complete the switching behaviour. An ultra-fast actuator switching speed is estimated as 1.55 µs latency for a single connection with a demo circuit. We further simulate the beam-steering system end-to-end in a commercial optical design software CODE V and demonstrate a theoretical 2.16 dB insertion loss for a single connection in the switch at optimum alignment.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Switching in microseconds: design of a 5 × 5 non-blocking free space optical switch at 1550nm with a piezo-actuator and beam-steering lens system |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OE.532830 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.532830 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197098 |
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