Title :
Nonreciprocal transmission of 10 Gbps OOK data through an all-silicon passive optical diode
Author :
Wang, Jian ; Fan, Li ; Varghese, Leo T. ; Gan, Fuwan ; Wang, Xi ; Wirth, Justin C. ; Niu, Ben ; Xuan, Yi ; Leaird, Daniel E. ; Weiner, Andrew M. ; Qi, Minghao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
An optical diode transmits forward 10Gbps data with less than 0.5dB power penalty, while suppressing and distorting backward data with a 11dB nominal power penalty. The nonreciprocal transmission is also demonstrated with a silicon modulator.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; photodiodes; silicon; all-silicon passive optical diode; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bonreciprocal transmission; nominal power penalty; on-off keying; silicon modulator; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Silicon; micro-resonator; optical nonreciprocity;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358816
