Contention resolution and forwarding of labeled optical packets at 40 Gb/s is demonstrated utilizing multiple InP based optical buffers and monolithic wavelength converters. Layer-2 packet recovery measurements are presented. ©2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.1810) Buffers, couplers, routers, switches, and multiplexers; (060.6719) Switching, packet

The ability to integrate micro-optical elements with movable structures and microactuators has opened up many new opportunities for optical and optoelectronic systemsI2. It allows us to manipulate optical beams more effectively than conventional methods, and is scalable to large optical systems. Optical MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) have applications in display, sensing, and optical dat...

Large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in Indium Phosphide represent a significant technology innovation that simplifies optical system design, reduces space and power consumption, and improves reliability. In addition, by lowering the cost of optical-to-electrical-to-optical (OEO) conversion in optical networks, they provide a transformational opportunity to embrace the use of electro...

We review recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics technology and components and describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits. Heterogeneous silicon photonics has recently demonstrated performance that significantly outperforms native III-V components. The impact active silicon photonic integrated circuits could have on interconnects, telecommunications, sensors and silicon electr...

We demonstrate TM grating couplers for LPCVD silicon nitride platform with coupling loss of 6.5dB at 1541nm and 1dB bandwidth of 55nm employing optical projection lithography for low-cost and mass manufacturing of photonic integrated circuits. OCIS codes: (350.2770) Gratings; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits

Optical amplifiers are important elements of photonic integrated circuits. We present a hybrid silicon evanescent amplifier utilizing a wafer bonded structure of silicon waveguide and AlGaInAs quantum wells. A chip gain of 13 dB with a power penalty of 0.5 dB at 40 Gb/s data amplification is demonstrated. ©2006 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers; ...