On-chip wireless interconnection through reconfigurable optical phased arrays

Abstract

In this paper we report the design of 3 × 3 wireless routers, based on transmitting and receiving integrated Optical Phased Arrays (OPAs), which allow on-chip optical wireless interconnections. The proposed device aims at achieving reconfigurable wideband optical links between multiple nodes. The general design criteria of these routers are illustrated and performance analysis in terms of insertion loss and crosstalk for different link configurations are reported.