Fully-programmable ring resonator based integrated photonic circuit for phase coherent applications

We demonstrate a novel reconfigurable ring resonator based integrated photonic chip with ultra-fine frequency resolution for spectral phase encoding. A spectrally efficient four-user OCDMA system is shown to operate at 2.5 Gb/s with BER< 10/sup -9/.

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