All-optical spatial multicasting using cascaded silicon photonic devices

Author

Biberman, Aleksandr ; Ophir, Noam ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Turner-Foster, Amy C. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Sherwood-Droz, Nicolas ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate all-optical spatial multicasting enabled by nanophotonic devices in two cascaded silicon chips. We evaluate each spatially-multicasted signal using 10-Gb/s BER measurements, facilitating the path towards fully-monolithic photonic integrated circuits performing complex network-level functionalities.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; multicast communication; nanophotonics; optical communication equipment; silicon; BER measurements; Si; all-optical spatial multicasting; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded silicon chips; cascaded silicon photonic devices; complex network-level functionalities; fully-monolithic photonic integrated circuits; nanophotonic devices; spatially-multicasted signal; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic integrated circuits; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5096-1

Type

conf

Filename

5287395