First demonstration of a 10-Gb/s RZ end-to-end four-wave-mixing based link at 1884 nm using silicon nanowaveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 276-278

  Ophir, Noam ^a   Lau, Ryan K W ^b   Ménard, Michaël ^b   Salem, Reza ^c   Padmaraju, Kishore ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^b   Lipson, Michal ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Picoluz LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; optical Kerr effect; optical signal processing; silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; DATA GENERATION; HIGH-SPEED; NANOWAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL SIGNALS; POWER PENALTY; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SILICON DEVICES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; UNICAST;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; MIXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 84856389627     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2176481     Document Type: Article

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