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Driving circuit for 32X32 Optical Matrix Switch using High-resolution Pulse-width Modulation Hiroyuki Matsuura, Satoshi Suda, Ken Tanizawa, Keijiro Suzuki, kazuhiro Ikeda, Hitoshi Kawashima, Shu Namiki (AIST) OCS2016-46 OPE2016-87 LQE2016-62 |
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A silicon photonic 32X32 strictly non-blocking matrix switch utilizing Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometers controlled by the thermo-optic effect has 2048 heater elements. In order to perform a desired connection of the optical input ports and the output ports, it is necessary to individually control the applied power to the heaters. To achieve this, we employed a pulse-width modulation to control the average power of the heaters. The pulse-width modulation is performed with high-repetition rate ON-OFF signal instead of a control of the applied analog current value to each heater. For achieving a high timing-resolution, two frequency counters are used with Vernier effect from the slightly shifted clocks in a frequency. We verified the timing-resolution of 6480 steps with 1 us repetition rate for each heater. Five general-purpose FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to control the heaters, buffer ICs and the switch element are mounted on a printed circuit board of 220 mm X 235 mm. The total switch system including the redundancy power-supply units, the cooling fans and control USB interface are installed to the 19 inches-wide 1RU-height housing. |
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optical matrix switch / silicon photonics / pulse-width modulation / High timing-resolution / / / / |
| Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 273, OCS2016-46, pp. 65-70, Oct. 2016. |
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OCS2016-46 |
| Date of Issue |
2016-10-20 (OCS, OPE, LQE) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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