Title :
All-optical spatial multicasting using cascaded silicon photonic devices
Author :
Biberman, Aleksandr ; Ophir, Noam ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Turner-Foster, Amy C. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Sherwood-Droz, Nicolas ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate all-optical spatial multicasting enabled by nanophotonic devices in two cascaded silicon chips. We evaluate each spatially-multicasted signal using 10-Gb/s BER measurements, facilitating the path towards fully-monolithic photonic integrated circuits performing complex network-level functionalities.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; multicast communication; nanophotonics; optical communication equipment; silicon; BER measurements; Si; all-optical spatial multicasting; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded silicon chips; cascaded silicon photonic devices; complex network-level functionalities; fully-monolithic photonic integrated circuits; nanophotonic devices; spatially-multicasted signal; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic integrated circuits; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
