10Gbit/s bias-free and error-free all-optical NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK format conversion using a III-V-on-silicon microdisk resonator

Author

Kumar, Ravindra ; Spuesens, Thijs ; Mechet, Pauline ; Olivier, N. ; Fedeli, Jean-Marc ; Regreny, P. ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Morthier, Geert

Author_Institution

INTEC Dept., Photonics Res. Group, Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of an all-optical, bias free and error-free (biterror-rate ~10^-12), 10Gbit/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) to return-to-zero (RZ) data format conversion in a 7.5μm diameter III-V microdisk integrated on top of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide circuit.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; amplitude shift keying; error statistics; integrated optics; micro-optics; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; III-V-on-silicon microdisk resonator; RZ-OOK format conversion; SOI waveguide circuit; Si; bias-free all-optical NRZ-OOK; bit error-rate; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data format conversion; error-free all-optical NRZ-OOK; nonreturn-to-zero; silicon-on-insulator; size 7.5 mum; High-speed optical techniques; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical pulses;

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

6476264