Title :
RZ-to-NRZ format conversion at 50 Gbit/s based on a silicon microring resonator
Author :
Ding, Yunhong ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Pu, Minhao ; Zsigri, Beáta ; Seoane, Jorge ; Liu, Liu ; Xu, Jing ; Ou, Haiyan ; Zhang, Xinliang ; Huang, Dexiu
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate RZ-to-NRZ format conversion at 50 Gbit/s based on silicon microring resonator with FSR of 100 GHz. Bit error rate measurements show a low power penalty compared to electrical NRZ signal for error free operation.
Keywords :
error statistics; micromechanical resonators; silicon; RZ-to-NRZ; bit error rate measurements; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; error free operation; format conversion; frequency 100 GHz; low power penalty; silicon microring resonator; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical ring resonators; Optical signal processing; Q factor;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6785-3
