Title :
Eight-channel second-order ring resonator based SOI multiplexers/demultiplexers for optical interconnects
Author :
Papaioannou, S. ; Dabos, G. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Giannoulis, G. ; Prinzen, A. ; Porschatis, C. ; Waldow, M. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Pleros, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate two 8×1 silicon ring-based multiplexers for dual stream multiplexing. All resonances were thermo-optically tuned and spaced by 100GHz having >40GHz bandwidth. Error-free performance without significant signal degradation was obtained for two 4-channel streams at 10Gb/s.
Keywords :
multiplexing equipment; optical interconnections; bandwidth 40 GHz; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; dual stream multiplexing; eight-channel second-order ring resonator; error-free performance; frequency 100 GHz; optical interconnects; Bit error rate; Channel spacing; Optical interconnections; Silicon; Tuning; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963933
