Title :
Silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyser
Author :
Corcoran, B. ; Vo, T.D. ; Pelusi, M. ; Monat, C. ; Xu, D.X. ; Densmore, A. ; Ma, R. ; Janz, S. ; Moss, D.J. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate a silicon nanowire based radio frequency spectrum analyser based on cross-phase modulation. We show that the device is accurate, with cross-chirp from photogenerated free-carriers negligible and measure RF spectra for 640Gbaud on-off-keyed data.
Keywords :
nanowires; optical communication; optical modulation; RF spectra measurement; cross-chirp; cross-phase modulation; photogenerated free-carriers; radio-frequency spectrum analyser; silicon nanowire; Bandwidth; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Probes; Radio frequency; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621130
