First Demonstration of an FPGA-Controlled Multiplane OAM-Wavelength Packet Switch

• Main Authors: Borromeo, Justine Cris, Malik, Muhammad Nouman, Andriolli, Nicola, Zhang, N, Klitis, Charalambos, Lavery, Martin, Preve, Gianni, Toccafondo, Veronica, Reyes, Rosula SJ, Castoldi, Piero, Sorel, Marc, Bogom, A, Scaffardi, Mirco
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: angular momentum; field programmable gate arrays; packet switching; photonic switching systems; Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/62; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8696636
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We report the first demonstration of an OAM-wavelength photonic integrated packet switch, controlled by a FPGA-based scheduler suited for multiplane architectures. We show error-free transmission at 20 Gb/s in multiple OAM-wavelength configurations.