Abstract
Using a compact (0.03 mm^2) silicon photonic thermo-optic switch with five cascaded thermo-topic phase-shifters, we demonstrate low insertion loss, low power, microsecond-scale cross-bar switching of twenty wavelength channels, each carrying 10 Gbit/second data concurrently.
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