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Abstract: Thermo-optic (TO) switches are essential components in integrated photonic circuits (PICs), but their efficiency is limited by significant heat dissipation into the silicon substrate due to ...

Abstract: We demonstrate a silicon TO switch based on photonic crystal nanobeam cavity with doped-silicon heaters. The insertion loss and crosstalk are less than 2.01 dB and -9.78 dB, respectively.