Controlling the delay of 100 Gb/s polarization division multiplexed signals through silicon photonics delay lines

Author

Morichetti, F. ; Canciamilla, A. ; Ferrari, C. ; Torregiani, M. ; Ferrario, M. ; Siano, R. ; Boffi, P. ; Marazzi, L. ; Martelli, P. ; Parolari, P. ; Martinelli, M. ; Samarelli, A. ; Sorel, M. ; De La Rue, Richard M. ; Faolain, L.O. ; Beggs, D.M. ; Krauss,

Author_Institution

POLICOM-DEI, Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

19-23 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We show a direct comparison between silicon reconfigurable delay lines based on coupled resonator optical waveguides and photonic crystal waveguides. The structures are used to selectively delay the two orthogonally polarized channels of a RZ-PolDM-DQPSK format at 100 Gbit/s.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; elemental semiconductors; light polarisation; optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; optical resonators; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; RZ-PolDM-DQPSK format; Si; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; orthogonally polarized channels; photonic crystal waveguides; polarization division multiplexing; resonator optical waveguides; return-to-zero differential quaternary phase shift keying; silicon photonics delay lines; silicon reconfigurable delay lines; Bit error rate; Delay; Delay lines; Optical buffering; Optical waveguides; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8536-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8534-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621202

Filename

5621202