title: An integrated recirculating optical buffer.
abstract: This paper reports an integrated optical buffer consisting of a low loss silicon waveguide delay line and a silicon evanescent gate matrix switch. The integrated device demonstrates an error free operation at 40 Gb/s data rate with a packet delay of 1.1 ns. This demonstration also highlights the silicon evanescent device platform to realize new types of photonic integrated devices by combining the low loss silicon passive components with the silicon evanescent photonic active devices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
authors.forename: Hyundai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mack
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bluementhal
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bowers
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*