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

F Li; M Pelusi; D-X Xu; A Densmore; R Ma; S Janz; D J Moss

doi:10.1364/OE.18.003905

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

Opt Express. 2010 Feb 15;18(4):3905-10. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.003905.

Authors

F Li¹, M Pelusi, D-X Xu, A Densmore, R Ma, S Janz, D J Moss

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Photonics and Optical Sciences (IPOS), Centre for Ultra-high Bandwidth for Optical Devices (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.

PMID: 20389401
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003905

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 approximately 3.9dB at 10(-9) BER.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Microwaves
Nanotubes / chemistry*
Nanotubes / ultrastructure
Optical Devices*
Silicon / chemistry*
Telecommunications / instrumentation*

Substances

Silicon