Four-port optical switch for photonic network-on-chip

We demonstrate a four-port optical switch for the photonic network-on-chip architecture, which contains four silicon Mach-Zehnder optical switch elements tuned by the plasma dispersion effect. The optical signal-to-noise ratio of the device is over 10.0 dB in the wavelength range from 1525 nm to 1565 nm. Its 10%-90% rise time and fall time are 2 ns.