Optical performance monitoring at 160Gb/s via slow light enhanced third-harmonic generation in silicon photonic crystal waveguides

Date

2009

Authors

Corcoran, Bill
Monat, Christelle
Pelusi, Mark
Grillet, Christian
White, Thomas
O'Faolain, Liam
Krauss, Thomas F.
Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Moss, David J.

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IEEE

Abstract

We report all-optical in-band OSNR monitoring at 160Gb/s via slow-light enhanced third harmonic generation in a 2D silicon photonic crystal waveguide, achieving better performance than quadratic methods.

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Keywords: 160 Gb/s; All-optical; In-band; Optical performance monitoring; Silicon photonic crystals; Slow light; Third harmonic generations; Third-harmonic generation; Harmonic generation; Laser optics; Optical waveguides; Photonic devices; Two dimensional; Wavegui

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Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

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Conference paper

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