title: Demonstration of wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s data rate in silicon waveguides.
abstract: We report an efficient wavelength conversion via four-wave-mixing in reverse biased silicon-on-isolator p-i-n rib waveguides and demonstrate, for the first time, the conversion of a high-speed optical pseudo-random bit sequence data at 40 Gb/s. Results give a wavelength conversion efficiency of -8.6dB using a 8cm long waveguide with clear open eye on the wavelength converted signal . Conversion efficiency as functions of pump power and bias voltages has also been investigated. We show a slope efficiency close to 2 as predicted by theory.
authors.forename: Ying-Hao
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Haisheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rong
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sih
authors.forename: Shengbo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paniccia
authors.forename: Oded
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cohen