Title :
Ultra-compact, slow light enhanced, 160Gbaud demultiplexing in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide
Author :
Corcoran, Bill ; Pelusi, Mark D. ; Monat, Christelle ; Li, Juntao ; O´Faolain, Liam ; Krauss, Thomas F. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate error-free de-multiplexing of 160Gbit/s optical data to a 10Gbit/s data stream, exploiting slow light enhancement of four-wave mixing in an ultra-compact 96μm long, dispersion engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguide.
Keywords :
integrated optics; multiwave mixing; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; dispersion engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguide; error-free demultiplexing; four-wave mixing; size 96 mum; slow light enhancement; Fiber optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
