High speed optical processing via four-wave-mixing in a silicon waveguide

F. Li, Mark Pelusi, D-X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, Siegfried Janz, David Moss

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017 · 10 citations · 11 references

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We demonstrate all-optical demultiplexing at 160 Gigabits per second in the C-band, based on nonlinear optics using four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire. We achieve error-free operation with a penalty of ~ 3.9dB.

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