• DocumentCode
    3701279
  • Title

    Instantaneous frequency measurement system using four-wave mixing in an ultra-compact long silicon waveguide

  • Author

    Mattia Pagani;Blair Morrison;Yanbing Zhang;Alvaro Casas-Bedoya;Timo Aalto;Mikko Harjanne;Markku Kapulainen;Benjamin J. Eggleton;David Marpaung

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We exploit the unique properties of a long thick silicon waveguide to harness Kerr nonlinearity with ultra-low loss for on-chip RF photonic signal processing. We demonstrate an instantaneous frequency measurement system with 40 GHz bandwidth and record-low measurement error.
  • Keywords
    "Frequency measurement","Optical waveguides","Bandwidth","Adaptive optics","Nonlinear optics","Silicon","Photonics"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341976
  • Filename
    7341976