Silicon-chip-based real-time dispersion monitoring for 640 Gbit/s DPSK signals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1790-1796

  Vo, Trung D ^a   Corcoran, Bill ^a,b   Schröder, Jochen ^a   Pelusi, Mark D ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^c   Densmore, Adam ^c   Ma, Rubin ^c   Janz, Siegfried ^c   Moss, David J ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; optical performance monitoring (OPM); optical planar waveguides; optical signal processing; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CHROMATIC DISPERSION MONITORING; CMOS COMPATIBLE; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; DISPERSION MONITORING; DPSK SIGNALS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MONITORING APPROACH; MONITORING PERFORMANCE; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL SIGNALS; SILICON NANOWIRES; TERABIT; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH;

NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

MONITORING;

EID: 79958074267     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2141974     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. J. Leuthold, C. Koos, and W. Freude, "Nonlinear silicon photonics," Nature Photon., vol. 4, pp. 535-544, Jul. 2010.
2. W. Astar, J. B. Driscoll, X. Liu, J. I. Dadap, W. M. J. Green, Y. A. Vlasov, G. M. Carter, and R. M. Osgood, "Conversion of 10 Gb/s NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK utilizing XPM in a Si nanowire," Opt. Exp., vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 12987-12999, Jul. 2009.
3. Ö. Boyraz, P. Koonath, V. Raghunathan, and B. Jalali, "All optical switching and continuum generation in silicon waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 4094-4102, Aug. 2004.
4. Y. Okawachi, M. A. Foster, X. Chen, A. C. Turner-Foster, R. Salem, M. Lipson, C. Xu, and A. L. Gaeta, "Large tunable delays using parametric mixing and phase conjugation in Si nanowaveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 16, no. 14, pp. 10349-10357, Jun. 2008.
5. Y. Dai, X. Chen, Y. Okawachi, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. A. Foster, M. Lipson, A. L. Gaeta, and C. Xu, "1 s tunable delay using parametric mixing and optical phase conjugation in Si waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 7004-7010, Apr. 2009.
6. H. Ji, H. Hu, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenløwe, M. Pu, K. Yvind, J. M. Hvam, and P. Jeppesen, "Optical waveform sampling and error-free demultiplexing of 1.28 Tbit/s serial data in a silicon nanowire," presented at the presented at the Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf., San Diego, CA, 2010, Paper PDPC7 (Postdeadline Paper).
7. H. Ji, M. Galili, H. Hu, M. Pu, L. K. Oxenløwe, K. Yvind, J. M. Hvam, and P. Jeppesen, "1.28-Tb/s demultiplexing of an OTDM DPSK data signal using a silicon waveguide," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 22, no. 23, pp. 1762-1764, Dec. 2010.
8. M. A. Foster, R. Salem, D. F. Geraghty, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Silicon-chip-based ultrafast optical oscilloscope," Nature, vol. 456, no. 7218, pp. 81-84, Nov. 2008.
9. Q. Lin, J. Zhang, P. M. Fauchet, and G. P. Agrawal, "Ultrabroadband parametric generation and wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 4786-4799, May 2006. (Pubitemid 43815013)
10. J. B. Driscoll, W. B. Astar, X. B. Liu, J. I. Dadap, W. M. J. Green, Y. A. Vlasov, G. M. Carter, and J. R. M. Osgood, "All-optical wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s RZ-OOK data in a silicon nanowire via cross-phase modulation: Experiment and theoretical investigation," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1448-1459, Sep./Oct. 2010.
11. O. Boyraz and B. Jalali, "Demonstration of a silicon Raman laser," Opt. Exp., vol. 12, no. 21, pp. 5269-5273, Oct. 2004.
12. H. Rong, S. Xu, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. Lee, V. Sih, and M. Paniccia, "A cascaded silicon Raman laser," Nature Photon., vol. 2, pp. 170-174, Mar. 2008.
13. M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, J. E. Sharping, B. S. Schmidt, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip," Nature, vol. 441, pp. 960-963, Jun. 2006. (Pubitemid 43980346)
14. T. K. Liang and H. K. Tsang, "Efficient Raman amplification in sil-icon-on-insulator waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 85, no. 16, pp. 3343-3345, Oct. 2004.
15. B. Corcoran, C. Monat, M. Pelusi, C. Grillet, T. P. White, L. O'Faolain, T. F. Krauss, B. J. Eggleton, and D. J. Moss, "Optical signal processing on a silicon chip at 640 Gb/s using slow-light," Opt. Exp., vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 7770-7781, Mar. 2010.
16. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 3rd ed. San Francisco, CA: Academic, 2001.
17. M. Pelusi, F. Luan, T. D. Vo, M. R. E. Lamont, S. J. Madden, D. A. Bulla, D. Y. Choi, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, "Pho tonic-chip-based radio-frequency spectrum analyser with terahertz bandwidth," Nature Photon., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 139-143, Feb. 2009.
18. T. D. Vo, H. Hu, M. Galili, E. Palushani, J. Xu, L. K. Oxenløwe, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, "Photonic chip based transmitter optimization and receiver demultiplexing of a 1.28 Tbit/s OTDM signal," Opt. Exp., vol. 18, no. 16, pp. 17252-17261, Jul. 2010.
19. T. D. Vo, J. Schröder, B. Corcoran, J. Van Erps, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies, M. D. Pelusi, and B. J. Eggleton, "Photonic chip based ultra-fast waveform analysis and optical performance monitoring," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., 2011.
20. T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, B. Corcoran, and B. J. Eggleton, "Multi-impairment monitoring at 320 Gb/s based on cross phase modulation radio-frequency spectrum analyzer," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 428-430, Mar. 2010.
21. T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, F. Luan, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, "Simultaneous multi-impairment monitoring of 640 Gb/s signals using photonic chip based RF spectrum analyzer," Opt. Exp., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 3938-3945, Feb. 2010.
22. T. D. Vo, J. Schröder, M. D. Pelusi, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, "Photonic chip-based simultaneous multi-impairment monitoring for phase-modulated optical signals," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 28, no. 21, pp. 3176-3183, Nov. 2010.
23. R. Claps, V. Raghunathan, D. Dimitropoulos, and B. Jalali, "Influence of nonlinear absorption on Raman amplification in silicon waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 2774-2780, Jun. 2004.
24. I.-W. Hsieh, X. Chen, J. I. Dadap, N. C. Panoiu, and R. M. Osgood, "Ultrafast-pulse self-phase modulation and third-order dispersion in Si photonic wire-waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 14, no. 25, pp. 12380-12387, Dec. 2006. (Pubitemid 44907581)
25. E. Dulkeith, Y. A. Vlasov, X. Chen, N. C. Panoiu, and R. M. Os-good, "Self-phase-modulation in submicron silicon-on-insulator photonic wires," Opt. Exp., vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 5524-5534, May 2006. (Pubitemid 43894226)
26. Q. Lin, O. J. Painter, and G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: Modeling and applications," Opt. Exp., vol. 15, no. 25, pp. 16604-16644, Nov. 2007. (Pubitemid 350262702)
27. M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Nonlinear optics in photonic nanowires," Opt. Exp., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1300-1320, Jan. 2008. (Pubitemid 351162213)
28. B. Corcoran, T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, C. Monat, D.-X. Xu, A. Dens-more, R. Ma, S. Janz, D. J. Moss, and B. J. Eggleton, "Silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyser," Opt. Exp., vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 20190-20200, Sep. 2010.
29. C. Dorrer and D. N. Maywar, "RF spectrum analysis of optical signals using nonlinear optics," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 266-274, Jan. 2004.
30. H.-S. Hsieh, K.-M. Feng, and M.-C. M. Lee, "Study of cross-phase modulation and free-carrier dispersion in silicon photonic wires for Mamyshev signal regenerators," Opt. Exp., vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 9613-9621, Apr. 2010.
31. I.-W. Hsieh, X. Chen, J. I. Dadap, N. C. Panoiu, and R. M. Osgood, "Cross-phase modulation-induced spectral and temporal effects on co-propagating femtosecond pulses in silicon photonic wires," Opt. Exp., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1135-1146, Jan. 2007. (Pubitemid 46220492)
32. R. A. Soref and B. R. Bennett, "Electrooptical effects in silicon," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-23, no. 1, pp. 123-129, Jan. 1987.
33. I. D. Rukhlenko, M. Premaratne, and G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear silicon photonics: Analytical tools," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 200-215, Jan./Feb. 2010.
34. S. Afshar V. and T. M. Monro, "A full vectorial model for pulse propagation in emerging waveguides with subwavelength structures part I: Kerr nonlinearity," Opt. Exp., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2298-2318, Feb. 2009.
35. X. Chen, N. C. Panoiu, and R. M. Osgood, "Theory of Raman-mediated pulsed amplification in silicon-wire waveguides," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 160-170, Feb. 2006.
36. B. A. Daniel and G. P. Agrawal, "Vectorial nonlinear propagation in silicon nanowire waveguides: Polarization effects," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 956-965, May 2010.
37. R. L. Espinola, J. I. Dadap, R. M. Osgood, S. J. McNab, and Y. A. Vlasov, "Raman amplification in ultrasmall silicon-on-insulator wire waveguides," Opt. Exp., vol. 12, no. 16, pp. 3713-3718, Jul. 2004.
38. D. Dimitropoulos, R. Jhaveri, R. Claps, J. C. S. Woo, and B. Jalali, "Lifetime of photogenerated carriers in silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 86, no. 7, pp. 071115-1-071115-3, Feb. 2005.
39. M. A. F. Roelens, S. Frisken, J. A. Bolger, D. Abakoumov, G. Baxter, S. Poole, and B. J. Eggleton, "Dispersion trimming in a reconfigurable wavelength selective switch," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 73-78, Jan. 2008. (Pubitemid 351384927)
40. J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, X. Wu, O. F. Yilmaz, B. Zhang, and A. E. Willner, "All-optical chromatic dispersion monitoring for phase-modulated signals utilizing cross-phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 20, no. 19, pp. 1642-1644, Oct. 2008.