Raman amplification of 40 Gb/s data in low-loss silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 357-362

  Sih, Vanessa ^a   Xu, Shengbo ^a   Kuo, Ying Hao ^a   Rong, Haisheng ^a   Paniccia, Mario ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b   Raday, Omri ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

LORENTZIAN LINEWIDTH; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SIGNAL INTEGRITY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33846503821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000357     Document Type: Article

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