… Abstract—Photonic switching technologies show … silicon photonic switching fabrics: spanning
a variety of manufacturing platforms and packaging methods, relying on different switching …

… This section discusses some of the proposed photonic switching fabrics that are based on …
the switching fabrics based on space channels. The devices used to implement these fabrics …

… photonics switching technology. It will begin by discussing the temporal bandwidth limitations
of photonic … referred as the parallelism of optics, and how it can be used in photonic fabrics. …

… can be divided into two major classes: electronic switching fabrics and photonic switching
fabrics (called also optical switching fabrics). These and earlier technologies used in …

… photonic switch demonstrations and summarize our latest work. We provide insight into our
approach for achieving scaled photonic switch … the utility of photonic switch fabrics. Finally, …

… routing is demonstrated in an 8 χ 8 silicon photonic switch fabric based on Mach–Zehnder …
photonic probes (CLIPPs) enables real-time monitoring of the state of each switching element …

… switch engines. We also demonstrate our latest work in the prototype of silicon photonic
switches … For our 32 × 32 hybrid dilated Benes silicon photonic switch fabric, the energy per bit is …

… The chip network includes a switch fabric made up of passives and actives, where active
signifies a multiport optical-routing structure and passive refers to a connecting channel …

… experiments where optical network interfaces interconnect the photonic substrate and … of a
silicon photonic switch fabric composed of 2 × 2 switch elements. Each of the switch elements …

… Next, we describe a test site implementing scaled switch fabrics laid out in multistage
topologies employing MZ-based 2×2 switching elements as building blocks. Fig. 5(a) shows a die …