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[TuP-E-10]Perfect Crossbar Optical Switch with Imperfect Couplers

○Toshio Watanabe1, Hirokazu Nakamura1, Tsutomu Nagayama1, Seiji Fukushima1 (1.Kagoshima University)

Keywords:

Optical switches and channel selecting/routing devices for photonic networks,Planar lightwave circuits (PLCs)

We propose a perfect crossbar optical switch based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers, which gives no crosstalk at both cross and bar states even if the power ratio of the couplers deviates from 50:50.