Title :
A broadband 1850-nm 40-Gb/s receiver based on four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides
Author :
Ophir, Noam ; Padmaraju, Kishore ; Menard, Michael ; Lau, Ryan K W ; Okawachi, Yoshitomo ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate a FWM-based receiver operating at long wavelengths. The scheme successfully demultiplexes a 1866-nm 40-Gb/s NRZ signal into 10-Gb/s tributaries while simultaneously wavelength-converting it to 1320 nm for photodetection.
Keywords :
demultiplexing; elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; optical receivers; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; photodetectors; silicon; FWM-based receiver; NRZ signal; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; broadband receiver; demultiplexing; four-wave mixing; photodetection; silicon waveguides; tributaries; wavelength 1320 nm; wavelength 1850 nm; wavelength-conversion; Adaptive optics; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
