1.024 Tb/s wavelength conversion in a silicon waveguide with reverse-biased p-i-n junction

We experimentally show an all-optical wavelength conversion of 8 × 32-GBd single-polarization 16QAM signals using a silicon nano-rib waveguide. The application of reverse biasing of the p-i-n junction of the waveguide allows a conversion efficiency of -8.5 dB with a measured 3-dB optical bandwidth of about 40 nm. Using digital coherent reception, it is shown that the receiver optical signal-to-noise ratio penalty, at a bit-error ratio of 1 × 10^-3, of the wavelength-converted signals over all eight channels was less than 0.6 dB with reference to their respective back-to-back signal channels.