Title :
Optical performance monitoring at 160Gb/s via slow light enhanced third-harmonic generation in silicon photonic crystal waveguides
Author :
Corcoran, B. ; Monat, C. ; Pelusi, M. ; Grillet, C. ; White, T.P. ; O´Faolain, L. ; Krauss, T.F. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Moss, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Opt. Sci., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We report all-optical in-band OSNR monitoring at 160 Gb/s via slow-light enhanced third harmonic generation in a 2D silicon photonic crystal waveguide, achieving better performance than quadratic methods.
Keywords :
integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical harmonic generation; photonic crystals; in-band OSNR monitoring; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical performance monitoring; silicon photonic crystal waveguides; slow light enhanced third-harmonic generation; Frequency conversion; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse compression; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon; Slow light;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343138
