• DocumentCode
    2304788
  • Title

    Nonreciprocal transmission of 10 Gbps OOK data through an all-silicon passive optical diode

  • Author

    Wang, Jian ; Fan, Li ; Varghese, Leo T. ; Gan, Fuwan ; Wang, Xi ; Wirth, Justin C. ; Niu, Ben ; Xuan, Yi ; Leaird, Daniel E. ; Weiner, Andrew M. ; Qi, Minghao

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    703
  • Lastpage
    704
  • Abstract
    An optical diode transmits forward 10Gbps data with less than 0.5dB power penalty, while suppressing and distorting backward data with a 11dB nominal power penalty. The nonreciprocal transmission is also demonstrated with a silicon modulator.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; photodiodes; silicon; all-silicon passive optical diode; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bonreciprocal transmission; nominal power penalty; on-off keying; silicon modulator; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Silicon; micro-resonator; optical nonreciprocity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358816
  • Filename
    6358816