High efficiency wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s data in silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1182-1188

  Rong, Haisheng ^a   Kuo, Ying Hao ^a   Liu, Ansheng ^a   Paniccia, Mario ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DISTORTION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BIT SEQUENCE DATA; P-I-N DIODE STRUCTURE; PUMP INTENSITY; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 32644447628     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001182     Document Type: Article

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