Multi-channel WDM RZ-to-NRZ format conversion at 50 Gbit/s based on single silicon microring resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21121-21130

  Ding, Yunhong ^a,b   Peucheret, Christophe ^b   Pu, Minhao ^b   Zsigri, Beata ^b   Seoane, Jorge ^b   Liu, Liu ^b   Xu, Jing ^b   Ou, Haiyan ^b   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE;

100 GHZ; CHANNEL SPACINGS; FABRICATED DEVICE; FIRST ORDER; FORMAT CONVERSION; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTI-CHANNEL WDM; Q-VALUES; SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS; WDM CHANNELS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 77957989298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021121     Document Type: Article

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