Patent ID: 8775992
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G02F,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for designing a photonics switching system, the method comprising: designing, by a data processing system, a photonic switch diode to attain each performance metric in a plurality of performance metrics associated with a photonic switching system based on a weighted value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics; selecting, by the data processing system, an electronic switch driver circuit design from a plurality of electronic switch driver circuit designs for the photonic switching system; determining, by the data processing system, whether each performance metric in the plurality of performance metrics associated with the photonic switching system meets or exceeds a threshold value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics based on the photonic switch diode designed by the data processing system and the electronic switch driver circuit design selected by the data processing system; responsive to the data processing system determining that each performance metric in the plurality of performance metrics associated with the photonic switching system meets or exceeds the threshold value corresponding to each of the performance metrics, designing, by the data processing system, the photonic switching system using the photonic switch diode designed by the data processing system and the electronic switch driver circuit design selected by the data processing system that met or exceeded each threshold value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics associated with the photonic switching system based on the weighted value of each performance metric; and responsive to the data processing system determining that each performance metric in the plurality of performance metrics associated with the photonic switching system does not meet or exceed the threshold value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics, re-designing, by the data processing system, the photonic switch diode by increasing the weighted value of each performance metric that did not meet or exceed its respective threshold value and decreasing the weighted value corresponding to a speed of the photonic switching system.