Error-free all-optical demultiplexing at 160Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire.
We demonstrate all-optical time division demultiplexing from 160Gb/s to 10Gb/s in the C-band, based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire. We achieve error-free operation with a system penalty of approximately 3.9dB at 10(-9) BER.
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Institute of Photonics and Optical Sciences (IPOS), Centre for Ultra-high Bandwidth for Optical Devices (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
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Densmore
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