Title :
Optical performance monitoring via slow light enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon photonic crystal waveguides
Author :
Corcoran, B. ; Monat, C. ; Grillet, C. ; White, T.P. ; O´Faolain, L. ; Krauss, T.F. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Moss, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We report optical performance monitoring via slow-light enhanced third harmonic generation in a 2D silicon photonic crystal waveguide. We achieve all-optical in-band OSNR monitoring of a 40Gb/s Return-to-Zero signal with significantly better performance than methods based on quadratic response functions.
Keywords :
monitoring; optical harmonic generation; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; silicon; all-optical in-band OSNR monitoring; optical performance monitoring; quadratic response functions; return-to-zero signal; silicon photonic crystal waveguides; slow-light enhanced third harmonic generation; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical noise; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Power generation; Signal to noise ratio; Silicon; Slow light; (130.5296) Photonic crystal waveguides; (190.4390) Nonlinear optics, integrated optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
