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Ultralow-power all-optical processing of high-speed data signals in deposited silicon waveguides
Ke-Yao Wang1, Keith G Petrillo, Mark A Foster
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Optics Express
|November 29, 2012
Abstract:
Utilizing a 6-mm-long hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowaveguide, we demonstrate error-free (BER < 10(-9)) 160-to-10 Gb/s OTDM demultiplexing using ultralow switching peak powers of 50 mW. This material is deposited at low temperatures enabling a path toward multilayer integration and therefore massive scaling of the number of devices in a single photonic chip.
