Two-copy wavelength conversion of an 80 Gbit/s serial data signal using cross-phase modulation in a silicon nanowire and detailed pump-probe characterisation

Author

Ji, Hong ; Cleary, C.S. ; Dailey, James M. ; Wang, Jiacheng ; Hu, Haibo ; Webb, R.P. ; Manning, R.J. ; Galili, Michael ; Jeppesen, P. ; Pu, M. ; Yvind, Kresten ; Oxenlowe, Leif K.

Author_Institution

DTU Fotonik, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate 80 Gbit/s wavelength conversion to two copies by simultaneously extracting the blue- and red-shifted sidebands from XPM in a silicon nanowire. Bit error rates of 10^-9 with only ~2 dB power penalty is achieved for both sidebands. Detailed pump-probe characterisation reveals amplitude and phase responses.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; error statistics; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; red shift; silicon; Si; XPM; amplitude response; bit error rates; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; blue-shifted sideband; cross-phase modulation; phase response; power penalty; pump-probe characterisation; red-shifted sideband; serial data signal; silicon nanowire; two-copy wavelength conversion; Amplitude modulation; Optical filters; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

Filename

6706278