Abstract
An indium phosphide-based monolithically integrated wavelength router is demonstrated in this Letter. The wavelength router has four input ports and four output ports, which integrate four wavelength converters and a 4×4 arrayed-waveguide grating router. Each wavelength converter is achieved based on cross-gain modulation and cross-phase modulation effects in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Error-free wavelength switching for a non-return-to-zero 2<sup>31</sup>-1 ps eudorandom binary sequence at 40 Gb/s data rate is performed. Both 1×4 and 3×1 all-optical routing functions of this chip are demonstrated for the first time with power penalties as low as 3.2 dB.
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