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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
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Nonreciprocal Transmission of 10 Gbps OOK Data through an All-Silicon Passive Optical Diode
Jian Wang1, Li Fan2, Leo T Varghese1
1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906.
Abstract:
An optical diode transmits forward 10Gbps data with less than 0.5dB power penalty, while suppressing and distorting backward data with a 11dB nominal power penalty. The nonreciprocal transmission is also demonstrated with a silicon modulator.
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