Breakthrough switching speed with an all-optical chalcogenide glass chip: 640 Gbit/s demultiplexing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2182-2187

  Galili, Michael ^a   Xu, Jing ^a,d   Mulvad, Hans C H ^a   Oxenløwe, Leif K ^a   Clausen, Anders T ^a   Jeppesen, Palle ^a   Luther Davis, Barry ^b   Madden, Steve ^b   Rode, Andrei ^b   Choi, Duk Yong ^b   Pelusi, Mark ^c   Luan, Feng ^c   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; DEMULTIPLEXING; GLASS; MULTIPLEXING; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL OPTICAL; AVERAGE POWER; CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; ERROR FLOOR; KERR NONLINEARITY; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; SWITCHING SPEED;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

CHALCOGEN; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHALCOGENS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 60549090621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002182     Document Type: Article

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