Silicon based ultrafast optical waveform sampling: [Best Student Paper Award]

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    Abstract

    A 300 nmx450 nmx5 mm silicon nanowire is designed and fabricated for a four wave mixing based non-linear optical gate. Based on this silicon nanowire, an ultra-fast optical sampling system is successfully demonstrated using a free-running fiber laser with a carbon nanotube-based mode-locker as the sampling source. A clear eye-diagram of a 320 Gbit/s data signal is obtained. The temporal resolution of the sampling system is estimated to 360 fs.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE
    Number of pages8
    Volume7728
    PublisherSPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
    Publication date2010
    Article number772807
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventPhotonics Europe: Nonlinear Optics and Applications IV - Brussels, Belgium
    Duration: 12 Apr 201016 Apr 2010

    Conference

    ConferencePhotonics Europe
    Country/TerritoryBelgium
    CityBrussels
    Period12/04/201016/04/2010
    SeriesProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    ISSN0277-786X

    Bibliographical note

    Best student paper

    Keywords

    • non-linearity
    • silicon nanowire
    • optical communiation
    • optical sampling

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