Wavelength Conversion of DP-QPSK Signals in a Silicon Polarization Diversity Circuit

Dragana Vukovic, Jochen Schroeder, Yunhong Ding, Mark D. Pelusi, Liang Bangyuan Du, Haiyan Ou, Christophe Peucheret

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    Abstract

    Multichannel wavelength conversion is experimentally demonstrated for high-speed 128 Gb/s dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying signals using four-wave mixing in a polarization diversity circuit with silicon nanowires as nonlinear elements. The wavelength conversion performance is investigated for both single-and three-channel input signals, showing quality factors well >9.8 dB (corresponding to bit-error-ratios better than 10(-3)) and with a negligible power penalty compared with the back-to-back case.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume27
    Issue number4
    Pages (from-to)411-414
    ISSN1041-1135
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
    • Photonics and Electrooptics
    • Bandwidth
    • four-wave mixing
    • Optical noise
    • Optical wavelength conversion
    • Phase shift keying
    • photonic integrated devices
    • Signal to noise ratio
    • Silicon
    • Wavelength converters
    • wavelength division multiplexing
    • ENGINEERING,
    • OPTICS
    • PHYSICS,
    • WAVE-GUIDES
    • Detector circuits
    • Four wave mixing
    • Nanowires
    • Phase shift
    • Phase shifters
    • Polarization
    • Wavelength division multiplexing
    • Bit error ratio (BER)
    • Dual-polarizations
    • Nonlinear elements
    • Photonic integrated devices
    • Polarization diversity
    • Quality factors
    • Silicon nanowires
    • Wavelength converter
    • Quadrature phase shift keying

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