Ultra-High-Speed Optical Serial-to-Parallel Data Conversion in a Silicon Nanowire

Abstract

We demonstrate conversion from 64×10 Gbit/s OTDM to 25 GHz DWDM by time-domain optical Fourier transformation. Using a single silicon nanowire, 40 of 64 OTDM tributaries are simultaneously converted to DWDM channels within FEC limits.