Optical signal processing in highly-nonlinear chalcogenide planar waveguides

Author

Pelusi, Mark D. ; Ta´eed, V.G. ; Lamont, Michael R. E. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Author_Institution

CUDOS, Sydney Univ., Sydney, NSW

fYear

2008

fDate

14-16 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Bit-error rate performance of newly developed AS₂S₃ planar waveguides in applications of highspeed all-optical time-division demultiplexing and wavelength conversion of 40-160 Gb/s optical signals through the use of four-wave mixing and cross-phase modulation is investigated.

Keywords

arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; demultiplexing; error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical information processing; optical planar waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; bit-error rate performance; cross-phase modulation; four-wave mixing; high-speed all-optical time-division demultiplexing; highly-nonlinear chalcogenide planar waveguides; optical signal processing; planar waveguides; wavelength conversion; Bit error rate; Demultiplexing; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical planar waveguides; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Planar waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series, 2008

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1594-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1595-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444412

Filename

4444412