Transparent format conversion of 10 Gb/s NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK in a Si photonic wire waveguide using XPM

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

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Abstract

We present format conversion of 10-Gb/s NRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK via XPM in a Si Photonic-Wire with a 2.5-dB 10-9 BER-receiver-sensitivity enhancement for the converted signal. Scalability of the technique beyond 160 Gb/s is shown theoretically.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventFrontiers in Optics, FiO 2010 - Rochester, NY, United States
Duration: Oct 24 2010Oct 28 2010

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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