Title :
A serial-cascaded double-microring-based silicon photonic circuit for high-speed on-chip clock-recovery applications
Author :
Luo, Xianshu ; Chen, Hui ; Feng, Shaoqi ; Poon, Andrew W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We fabricate a silicon microring-based photonic circuit comprising a passive NRZ-to-PRZ signal-format converter and a serial-cascaded modulator for clock-recovery applications. We demonstrate on the same chip 5-Gbit/s format conversion and 5-GHz sampling with 64-ps-width pulses.
Keywords :
integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical modulation; optical resonators; silicon; synchronisation; Si; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; format conversion; frequency 5 GHz; high-speed on-chip clock recovery; microring; passive NRZ-to-PRZ signal-format converter; serial-cascaded modulator; silicon photonic circuit; Circuits; Clocks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Sampling methods; Silicon; (070.6020) Signal processing; (140.4780) Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338307
