• DocumentCode
    2118067
  • Title

    Design of opto-mechanical tunable silicon DQPSK demodulator

  • Author

    Xuhui Li ; Jian Wang ; Chengcheng Gui ; Yun Long ; Long Zhu

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    456
  • Lastpage
    457
  • Abstract
    We present an optically-controlled tunable silicon DQPSK demodulator using optical force. It employs a cantilever nanostring to adjust phase shift by a counter-propagating control light. 40-Gbaud/s DQPSK demodulation is implemented using the designed opto-mechanical tunable DQPSK demodulator with the performance evaluated by Q-factor and BER.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; demodulation; demodulators; elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon; BER; DQPSK demodulation; Q-factor; Si; bit error rate; cantilever nanostring; counterpropagating control light; differential quadrature phase shift keying; optical force; optomechanical tunable silicon DQPSK demodulator; phase shift; Demodulation; Force; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656634
  • Filename
    6656634