Title :
Broadband wavelength conversion of 10-Gb/s DPSK signals in silicon waveguides
Author :
Xu, Lin ; Ophir, Noam ; Swan, Elizabeth ; Turner-Foster, Amy C. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate for the first time four-wave mixing based wavelength conversion of phase modulated optical signals in dispersion-engineered silicon waveguides. Error-free operation and 1-dB power penalties are experimentally obtained for 10-GB/s DPSK wavelength-converted signals.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; silicon; DPSK signals; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; broadband wavelength conversion; dispersion-engineered silicon waveguides; four-wave mixing; phase modulated optical signals;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698861
