Optical signal processing on a silicon chip at 640Gb/s using slow-light

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 7770-7781

  Corcoran, B ^a   Monat, C ^a   Pelusi, M ^a   Grillet, C ^a   White, T P ^b   O'Faolain, L ^b   Krauss, T F ^b   Eggleton, B J ^a   Moss, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON; SLOW LIGHT;

OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; OPTICAL THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION; PROCESSING SPEED; RESIDUAL DISPERSIONS; SILICON DEVICES; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 77950937946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007770     Document Type: Article

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