Demonstration of broadband wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s in silicon waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 182-184

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Biberman, Aleksandr ^a   Turner Foster, Amy C ^b   Foster, Mark A ^b   Lipson, Michal ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical Kerr effect; Optical signal processing; Silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MICROSENSORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDES;

40 GB/S; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DATA RATES; ENGINEERED DEVICES; INPUT SIGNALS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDES; ULTRA BROADBANDS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSIONS;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 59649102734     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2009945     Document Type: Article

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