• 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