Wavelength conversion of 80 Gb/s RZ-DPSK Pol-MUX signals in a silicon nanowire

Author

Vukovic, Dragana ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Oxenlowe, Leif K. ; Chang Joon Chae ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Pelusi, Mark D.

Author_Institution

Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

56

Abstract

All-optical wavelength conversion of 80 Gb/s RZ-DPSK polarization multiplexed signals is demonstrated in a silicon nanowire using an angled-pump scheme. The quality of the converted signal is characterized through BER measurements for the first time.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; error statistics; light polarisation; multiplexing; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; silicon; BER measurements; RZ-DPSK Pol-MUX signals; RZ-DPSK polarization multiplexed signals; Si; all-optical wavelength conversion; angled-pump scheme; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; converted signal quality; return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying; silicon nanowire; Bit error rate; Multiplexing; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon; Silicon nanowires; four-wave mixing; polarization-multiplexed signals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2282-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Group4.2014.6962047

Filename

6962047