Ultralow-power 160-to-10Gb/s optical demultiplexing using four-wave mixing in deposited silicon waveguides

Author

Ke-Yao Wang ; Petrillo, Keith G. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Foster, Amy C.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Utilizing a 6-mm-long hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowaveguide, we demonstrate error-free (BER <; 10^-9) 160-to-10 Gb/s OTDM demultiplexing using ultralow switching peak powers of 50 mW. This material is deposited at low temperatures enabling a path toward multilayer integration and therefore massive scaling of the number of devices in a single photonic chip.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; integrated optics; multiwave mixing; nanophotonics; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; silicon; time division multiplexing; OTDM demultiplexing; Si; bit rate 160 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s; deposited silicon waveguides; four wave mixing; hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowaveguide; power 50 mW; single photonic chip; size 6 mm; ultralow power optical demultiplexing; ultralow switching peak power; Communication networks; Convergence; Cost function; Measurement; Stochastic processes; Trajectory; Vectors; Four-wave mixing; optical demultiplexing; silicon devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2013 47th Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5237-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5238-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISS.2013.6552303

Filename

6552303