• DocumentCode
    3202359
  • Title

    Silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyser

  • Author

    Corcoran, B. ; Vo, T.D. ; Pelusi, M. ; Monat, C. ; Xu, D.X. ; Densmore, A. ; Ma, R. ; Janz, S. ; Moss, D.J. ; Eggleton, B.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Photonics &, Opt. Sci. (IPOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    1-3 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    365
  • Lastpage
    367
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyzer capable of characterizing ultrahigh speed optical data. Through measurement of 640GBit/s on-off-keyed data we show that although nonlinear loss affects device efficiency, free-carrier dispersion is negligible.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical communication equipment; optical dispersion; optical losses; silicon; spectral analysers; Si; bit rate 640 Gbit/s; free-carrier dispersion; nonlinear loss; on-off-keying; radiofrequency spectrum analyser; silicon nanowire; ultrahigh speed optical data; High speed optical techniques; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Probes; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6344-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643325
  • Filename
    5643325