Ultra-compact amorphous silicon waveguide for wavelength conversion
Ultra-compact amorphous silicon waveguide for wavelength conversion
In this work we demonstrate, for the first time, successful four wave mixing (FWM) based wavelength conversion of Binary Phase Shift Keyed (BPSK) and Quadrature Phase Shift Keyed (QPSK) signals, at 20 Gb/s bitrate, in a 1-mm long amorphous silicon waveguide. A maximum FWM-efficiency of -26 dB was achieved by employing a pump power of just 70 mW, establishing this technology as a contender for the development of ultra-compact, low power, silicon photonics wavelength converter. Bit Error Ratio (BER) measurements demonstrated successful conversion with less than 1 dB penalty level, for both BPSK and QPSK signals (at BER = 10-5).
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February 2016
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Lacava, Cosimo, Ettabib, Mohamed, Cristiani, Ilaria, Fédéli, Jean Marc, Richardson, David J. and Petropoulos, Periklis
(2016)
Ultra-compact amorphous silicon waveguide for wavelength conversion.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28 (4), .
(doi:10.1109/LPT.2015.2496758).
Abstract
In this work we demonstrate, for the first time, successful four wave mixing (FWM) based wavelength conversion of Binary Phase Shift Keyed (BPSK) and Quadrature Phase Shift Keyed (QPSK) signals, at 20 Gb/s bitrate, in a 1-mm long amorphous silicon waveguide. A maximum FWM-efficiency of -26 dB was achieved by employing a pump power of just 70 mW, establishing this technology as a contender for the development of ultra-compact, low power, silicon photonics wavelength converter. Bit Error Ratio (BER) measurements demonstrated successful conversion with less than 1 dB penalty level, for both BPSK and QPSK signals (at BER = 10-5).
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 October 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 November 2015
Published date: February 2016
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Local EPrints ID: 383472
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/383472
ISSN: 1041-1135
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