Title :
Error-free 0.16 π-XPM-based All-Optical Wavelength Conversion in a 1-cm-long AlGaAs waveguide
Author :
Ng, W.C. ; Xu, Q. ; Dolgaleva, K. ; Doucet, S. ; Lemus, D. ; Chrétien, P. ; Zhu, W. ; Rusch, L.A. ; LaRochelle, S. ; Qian, L. ; Aitchison, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The first demonstration of error-free All-Optical Wavelength Conversion via Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM-AOWC) in a highly-nonlinear and low-TPA AlGaAs waveguide at 10Gb/s is reported, with a nonlinear phase shift of 0.16π.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; optical modulation; optical phase shifters; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; AlGaAs; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; error-free π-XPM-based all-optical wavelength conversion; nonlinear phase shift; waveguide;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698753
