Silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyser

We demonstrate a silicon nanowire based radio-frequency spectrum analyzer capable of characterizing ultrahigh speed optical data. Through measurement of 640GBit/s on-off-keyed data we show that although nonlinear loss affects device efficiency, free-carrier dispersion is negligible.

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