All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB

W. Astar; Jeffrey B. Driscoll; Xiaoping Liu; Jerry I. Dadap; William M.J. Green; Yurii A. Vlasov; Gary M. Carter; Richard M. Osgood

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2029872

All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB

W. Astar, Jeffrey B. Driscoll, Xiaoping Liu, Jerry I. Dadap, William M.J. Green, Yurii A. Vlasov, Gary M. Carter, Richard M. Osgood

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Abstract

All-optical format conversion of 10 Gb/s non-return-to-zero on-off keying (NRZ-OOK) to RZ-OOK has been successfully achieved, for the first time to our knowledge, utilizing either cross-phase modulation (XPM) or four-wave mixing (FWM), in a Silicon (Si) nanowire. A 10^-9-bit-error-rate (BER) receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.8 dB was obtained for converted RZ-OOK relative to NRZ-OOK using XPM, whereas a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB was found for the FWM anti-Stokes RZ-OOK. Simultaneous wavelength and pulse format conversions were possible with FWM. No evidence of an error floor for BER 10^-10 was observed in either technique. The converted RZ-OOK signal was also correctly encoded and of the correct polarity.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5398903
Pages (from-to)	234-249
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2029872
State	Published - Jan 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cross-phase modulation
Format conversion
Four-wave mixing
Nonlinear optics
Silicon nanowires

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Astar, W., Driscoll, J. B., Liu, X., Dadap, J. I., Green, W. M. J., Vlasov, Y. A., Carter, G. M., & Osgood, R. M. (2010). All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 16(1), 234-249. [5398903]. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2029872

All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB. / Astar, W.; Driscoll, Jeffrey B.; Liu, Xiaoping et al.
In: IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 5398903, 01.2010, p. 234-249.

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Astar, W, Driscoll, JB, Liu, X, Dadap, JI, Green, WMJ, Vlasov, YA, Carter, GM & Osgood, RM 2010, 'All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of ∼2.5 dB', IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 16, no. 1, 5398903, pp. 234-249. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2029872

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