• DocumentCode
    2112473
  • Title

    Four wave mixing based wavelength conversion and multicasting of 16-QAM signals in a silicon nanowire

  • Author

    Adams, Rene ; Spasojevic, Mina ; Chagnon, Mathieu ; Malekiha, M. ; Li, Jie ; Plant, David V. ; Chen, Lawrence R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate error-free wavelength conversion of 16-QAM 28-GBaud (112 Gb/s) signals and 1-to-6 wavelength multicasting of 16-QAM 22-GBaud (6×88 Gb/s) signals based on four wave mixing in a dispersion engineered silicon nanowire.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature amplitude modulation; silicon; 16-QAM signals; Si; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; dispersion engineered silicon nanowire; error-free wavelength conversion; four wave mixing; wavelength multicasting; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Multicast communication; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656425
  • Filename
    6656425