A 60 Gb/s MDM-WDM Si photonic link with < 0.7 dB power penalty per channel

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 18543-18555

  Driscoll, Jeffrey B ^a,b   Chen, Christine P ^b   Grote, Richard R ^a,b   Souhan, Brian ^a,b   Dadap, Jerry I ^a,b   Stein, Aaron ^c   Lu, Ming ^c   Bergman, Keren ^b   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

20 GB/S; ASYMMETRIC Y-JUNCTIONS; DEMULTIPLEXERS; MULTIMODES; ON CHIPS; POWER PENALTY; SI PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WDM TRANSMISSION;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84905371665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018543     Document Type: Article

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