Wavelength multicasting in silicon photonic nanowires.
We demonstrate a scalable, energy-efficient, and pragmatic method for high-bandwidth wavelength multicasting using FWM in silicon photonic nanowires. We experimentally validate up to a sixteen-way multicast of 40-Gb/s NRZ data using spectral and temporal responses, and evaluate the resulting data integrity degradation using BER measurements and power penalty performance metrics. We further examine the impact of this wavelength multicasting scalability on conversion efficiency. Finally, we experimentally evaluate up to a three-way multicast of 160-Gb/s pulsed-RZ data using spectral and temporal responses, representing the first on-chip wavelength multicasting of pulsed-RZ data.
Biberman
Aleksandr
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. biberman@ee.columbia.edu
Lee
Benjamin G
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Turner-Foster
Amy C
AC
Foster
Mark A
MA
Lipson
Michal
M
Gaeta
Alexander L
AL
Bergman
Keren
K
D004867:Equipment Design; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D053770:Nanowires; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D055096:Optical Devices; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*
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