[TuP-F] Poster Session 1

[TuP-F-3] Silicon 2 × 2 Thermo-Optic Switch with Response time < 3 µs and Power < 3 mW

○haojie xue¹, shiqi zhang¹, tongxin yang¹, lei zhang^1,2 (1. School of Integrated Circuits, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China), 2. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China))

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Photonic switching devices and building blocks

We present a silicon thermo-optic switch driven by pulsed voltage, achieving a sub-3 µs response time, a significant improvement from approximately 20 µs, while maintaining a switching power below 3 mW.