Low-driving-current InGaAsP photonic-wire optical switches using III–V CMOS photonics platform

Electrically-driven Mach-Zehnder interferometer type InGaAsP photonic-wire optical switches using III-V CMOS photonics platform have been demonstrated. Optical switching with 10 dB extinction ratio was achieved with driving current of 200 μA.

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