FWM-based wavelength conversion of 40 Gbaud PSK signals in a silicon germanium waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16683-16689

  Ettabib, Mohamed A ^a   Hammani, Kamal ^a   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Jones, Liam ^a   Kapsalis, Alexandros ^b   Bogris, Adonis ^b,c   Syvridis, Dimitris ^b   Brun, Mickael ^d   Labeye, Pierre ^d   Nicoletti, Sergio ^d   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BIT ERROR RATIO (BER); DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYED; POWER PENALTY; PSK SIGNALS; PUMP POWER; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFTS; SILICON GERMANIUM;

WAVEGUIDES;

GERMANIUM; SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84880562193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016683     Document Type: Article

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