A hybrid photonic integrated wavelength converter on a silicon-on-insulator substrate

Author

Stamatiadis, C. ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Lazarou, I. ; Kalavrouziotis, D. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Voigt, K. ; Preve, G.B. ; Moerl, L. ; Kreissl, J. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We present fabrication and testing of a wavelength converter integrated on a silicon-on-insulator substrate. The chip employs a hybrid integrated SOA and delay-interferometers integrated on 4μm SOI. We demonstrate 40Gb/s error-free performance.

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; light interferometry; optical fabrication; optical testing; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon-on-insulator; Si; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; error-free performance; hybrid integrated SOA; hybrid photonic integrated wavelength converter; integrated delay-interferometers; silicon-on-insulator substrate; size 4 mum; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon; Silicon on insulator technology; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6308117