DocumentCode
1889654
Title
High-order micro-ring resonator assisted wavelength converters for scalable and power efficient photonic routers
Author
Vyrsokinos, K. ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Sheng, Z. ; Kehayas, E. ; Bakopoulos, P. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Stamatiadis, C. ; Kouloumentas, Christos ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Dekker, R. ; Klein, E.J. ; Thourhout, D.V. ; Korthorst, M.T. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution
Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
fYear
2009
fDate
20-24 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We design and demonstrate the first higher-order silicon micro-ring resonators suitable for wavelength conversion. We show that 40 and 160 Gb/s wavelength conversion is feasible with a SOA followed by 2nd and 3rd order MRRs respectively.
Keywords
convertors; integrated optoelectronics; microcavities; optical resonators; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2nd order MRR; 3rd order MRR; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; high order microring resonator; power efficient photonic routers; scalable photonic routers; wavelength converters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Vienna
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5096-1
Type
conf
Filename
5287341
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