Title :
An integrated and compact hybrid silicon 2R regenerator
Author :
Kurczveil, Géza ; Heck, Martijn J R ; Peters, Jonathan D. ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
An optical 2R regenerator is presented. The device consists of an optical amplifier integrated with a saturable absorber. Over 3 dB improvement in the extinction ratio is seen for 1 Gb/s signals at 1560 nm.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; silicon; Si; compact hybrid silicon 2R regenerator; extinction ratio; integrated optics; optical amplifier; saturable absorber; wavelength 1560 nm; Extinction ratio; Gain; Optical fiber communication; Optical waveguides; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358840
