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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656425
