• DocumentCode
    520997
  • Title

    Error-free all-optical demultiplexing at 160Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire

  • Author

    Li, F. ; Pelusi, M. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Densmore, A. ; Ma, R. ; Xu, D.X. ; Janz, S. ; Moss, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate all-optical time division demultiplexing from 160Gb/s to 10Gb/s in the C-band, based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire. We achieve error-free operation with a system penalty of ∼ 3.9dB at 10–9 BER.
  • Keywords
    Demultiplexing; Four-wave mixing; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical materials; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500602