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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Ultracompact 160 Gbaud all-optical demultiplexing exploiting slow light in an engineered silicon photonic crystal
Bill Corcoran1, Mark D Pelusi, Christelle Monat
1Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics Optical Sciences (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. billc@physics.usyd.edu.au
Abstract:
We demonstrate all-optical demultiplexing of a high-bandwidth, time-division multiplexed 160 Gbit/s signal to 10 Gbit/s channels, exploiting slow light enhanced four-wave mixing in a dispersion engineered, 96 μm long planar photonic crystal waveguide. We report error-free (bit error rate<10⁻⁹) operation of all 16 demultiplexed channels, with a power penalty of 2.2-2.4 dB, highlighting the potential of these structures as a platform for ultracompact all-optical nonlinear processes.
