Monolithic Integrated Slot-Blocker for High Datarate Coherent Optical Slot Switched Networks

Recent progresses on monolithic SOI-based integration are presented for achieving high-performance slot-blocker for cost-sensitive metropolitan and datacenter networks. We review several nodes architectures for such optical slot switching ring networks. Such devices integrate up to 65 functional elements, allowing complex operations such as polarization and wavelength (de)multiplexing with sub-wav...