Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-38

  Salem, Reza ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Turner, Amy C ^b   Geraghty, David F ^a   Lipson, Michal ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RATIOS; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; MODULATION RATES; REGENERATION DEVICES; SIGNAL DEGRADATION; SIGNAL REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TIMING JITTER;

SILICON;

EID: 37549039468     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.249     Document Type: Article

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