Silicon Photonics for Signal Processing of Tbit/s Serial Data Signals

In this paper, we describe our recent work on signal processing of terabit per second optical serial data signals using pure silicon waveguides. We employ nonlinear optical signal processing in nanoengineered silicon waveguides to perform demultiplexing and optical waveform sampling of 1.28-Tbit/s data signals as well as wavelength conversion of up to 320-Gbit/s data signals. We demonstrate that the silicon waveguides are equally useful for amplitude and phase-modulated data signals.

[1]  L. Chiaraviglio,et al.  Optical technologies can improve the energy efficiency of networks , 2009, 2009 35th European Conference on Optical Communication.

[2]  R. Tucker,et al.  Switching Energy and Device Size Limits on Digital Photonic Signal Processing Technologies , 2008, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[3]  P. Jeppesen,et al.  Silicon chip based wavelength conversion of ultra-high repetition rate data signals , 2011, 2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[4]  L. Gruner-Nielsen,et al.  Fiber optical trap deposition of carbon nanotubes on fiber end-faces in a modelocked laser , 2008, 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science.

[5]  Geert Morthier,et al.  An ultra-small, low-power all-optical flip-flop memory on a silicon chip , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[6]  C. Koos,et al.  40 Gbit/s silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) phase modulator , 2010, 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication.

[7]  Hao Hu,et al.  640 Gbit/s and 1.28 Tbit/s polarisation insensitive all optical wavelength conversion. , 2010, Optics express.

[8]  Michal Lipson,et al.  160-Gb/s broadband wavelength conversion on chip using dispersion-engineered silicon waveguides , 2009, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference.

[9]  S. Janz,et al.  Error-free all-optical demultiplexing at 160Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire , 2010, CLEO/QELS: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications.

[10]  Michal Lipson,et al.  On-chip wavelength multicasting of 3×320-Gb/s pulsed-RZ optical data , 2010, 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication.

[11]  M. Lipson,et al.  Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip , 2008 .

[12]  Michal Lipson,et al.  Changing the colour of light in a silicon resonator , 2007 .

[13]  Wolfgang Freude,et al.  Highly-Nonlinear Silicon Photonics Slot Waveguide , 2008 .

[14]  Di Liang,et al.  Hybrid Silicon Lasers: The Final Frontier to Integrated Computing , 2010 .

[15]  K. Yvind,et al.  Optical waveform sampling and error-free demultiplexing of 1.28 Tbit/s serial data in a silicon nanowire , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[16]  Michal Lipson,et al.  Nonlinear silicon photonics , 2012, 2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.

[17]  F. Diederich,et al.  All-optical high-speed signal processing with silicon–organic hybrid slot waveguides , 2009 .

[18]  L. Sekaric,et al.  Ultra-compact, low RF power, 10 Gb/s silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator. , 2007, Optics express.

[19]  J. Bowers,et al.  Integrated triplexer on hybrid silicon platform , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[20]  Hui-Wen Chen,et al.  25Gb/s hybrid silicon switch using a capacitively loaded traveling wave electrode. , 2010, Optics express.

[21]  Michal Lipson,et al.  First experimental bit-error-rate validation of 12.5-Gb/s silicon modulator enabling photonic networks-on-chip , 2010, 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[22]  J. Bowers,et al.  Integrated Hybrid Lasers and Amplifiers on a Silicon Platform , 2008, OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

[23]  Geert Morthier,et al.  10-GHz All-Optical Gate Based on a III–V/SOI Microdisk , 2010, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[24]  David A. B. Miller,et al.  Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips , 2009, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[25]  R. Baets,et al.  III-V/silicon-on-Insulator nanophotonic cavities for optical network-on-chip. , 2010, Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

[26]  Peter A. Andrekson,et al.  Nonlinear optical fiber based high resolution all‐optical waveform sampling , 2007 .

[27]  K. Yvind,et al.  Ultra-low-loss inverted taper coupler for silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguide , 2010 .

[28]  Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe,et al.  1.28 Tbit/s single-polarisation serial OOK optical data generation and demultiplexing , 2009 .

[29]  R. Jones,et al.  Silicon evanescent optical frequency comb generator , 2008, 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics.