Power Penalty of High-Data-Rate Transmission Delay through a Silicon Photonic Crystal Slow-Light Waveguide

Author

Lee, B.G. ; McMillan, J.F. ; Biberman, A. ; Small, B.A. ; Wong, C.W. ; Bergman, K.

Author_Institution

Columbia Univ., New York

fYear

2007

fDate

19-22 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

70

Abstract

The power penalty of a silicon photonic crystal slow-light waveguide, which can be used for optical buffering, is characterized experimentally and with simulations. The distortion, caused by dispersion near the mode onset, imposes a design performance trade-off between the obtainable delay and the tolerable degradation.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; silicon; Si; high-data-rate transmission delay; mode onset; optical buffering; power penalty; silicon photonic crystal slow-light waveguide; tolerable degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical distortion; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Propagation delay; Silicon; Integrated optics; Optical communication; Optical delay lines; Optical distortion; Photonic crystals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2007

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1122-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2007.4300748

Filename

4300748