First 80-Gb/s and 160-Gb/s wavelength-converted data stream measurements in a silicon waveguide

Author

Ophir, Noam ; Biberman, Aleksandr ; Turner-Foster, Amy C. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Data fidelity is inspected for the first time for wavelength-converted RZ TDM 80- and 160-Gb/s data using four-wave mixing in a silicon waveguide. Open eye diagrams and error-free operation is shown for demultiplexed 10-Gb/s tributaries.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; silicon; time division multiplexing; RZ TDM; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; data fidelity; data stream measurements; error-free operation; four-wave mixing; return-to-zero time division multiplexing; silicon waveguide; wavelength conversion; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical mixing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465813