Wavelength multicasting in silicon photonic nanowires

We demonstrate a scalable, energy-efficient, and pragmatic method for high-bandwidth wavelength multicasting using FWM in silicon photonic nanowires. We experimentally validate up to a sixteen-way multicast of 40-Gb/s NRZ data using spectral and temporal responses, and evaluate the resulting data in...

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Published in:Optics express 2010-08, Vol.18 (17), p.18047-18055
Main Authors: Biberman, Aleksandr, Lee, Benjamin G, Turner-Foster, Amy C, Foster, Mark A, Lipson, Michal, Gaeta, Alexander L, Bergman, Keren
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Equipment Design
Nanotechnology - instrumentation
Nanowires
Nonlinear Dynamics
Optical Devices
Silicon - chemistry
Telecommunications - instrumentation
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Summary:We demonstrate a scalable, energy-efficient, and pragmatic method for high-bandwidth wavelength multicasting using FWM in silicon photonic nanowires. We experimentally validate up to a sixteen-way multicast of 40-Gb/s NRZ data using spectral and temporal responses, and evaluate the resulting data integrity degradation using BER measurements and power penalty performance metrics. We further examine the impact of this wavelength multicasting scalability on conversion efficiency. Finally, we experimentally evaluate up to a three-way multicast of 160-Gb/s pulsed-RZ data using spectral and temporal responses, representing the first on-chip wavelength multicasting of pulsed-RZ data.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.18.018047