• DocumentCode
    2162513
  • Title

    Experimental demonstration of UWB monocycle pulse generation using two-photon absorption in a silicon waveguide

  • Author

    Yue, Yang ; Huang, Hao ; Zhang, Lin ; Wang, Jian ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Levy, Jacob S. ; Lipson, Michal ; Willner, Alan E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose and experimentally demonstrate UWB monocycle generation using non-degenerated two-photon absorption in a silicon waveguide. A 8.69-GHz 10-dB bandwidth (BW) and a 154.5% fractional bandwidth is achieved with a ~125 ps monocycle pulse.
  • Keywords
    ultra wideband communication; waveguides; UWB monocycle generation; UWB monocycle pulse generation; nondegenerated two-photon absorption; silicon waveguide; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Probes; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6066094