Title :
Comparison of extinction ratio enhancement of 10 and 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK signals using pump-modulated four-wave mixing in a silicon waveguide
Author :
Chen, Y.M. ; Lei, Gordon K P ; Xu, K. ; Wong, C.Y. ; Chen, X. ; Cheng, Z.Z. ; Shu, Chester ; Tsang, H.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We experimentally compare the extinction ratio enhancement of RZ-OOK signal using four-wave mixing in a silicon waveguide at 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s. The measured extinction ratio enhancement was 4.7 and 4.1 dB, respectively.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; elemental semiconductors; extinction coefficients; multiwave mixing; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical waveguides; silicon; RZ-OOK signals; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; extinction ratio enhancement; pump-modulated four-wave mixing; silicon waveguide; Adaptive optics; Band pass filters; Erbium; Extinction ratio; Optical waveguides; Repeaters; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276514
