Title :
Instantaneous frequency measurement system using four-wave mixing in an ultra-compact long silicon waveguide
Author :
Mattia Pagani;Blair Morrison;Yanbing Zhang;Alvaro Casas-Bedoya;Timo Aalto;Mikko Harjanne;Markku Kapulainen;Benjamin J. Eggleton;David Marpaung
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Abstract :
We exploit the unique properties of a long thick silicon waveguide to harness Kerr nonlinearity with ultra-low loss for on-chip RF photonic signal processing. We demonstrate an instantaneous frequency measurement system with 40 GHz bandwidth and record-low measurement error.
Keywords :
"Frequency measurement","Optical waveguides","Bandwidth","Adaptive optics","Nonlinear optics","Silicon","Photonics"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341976
