Wavelength conversion of a 128 Gbit/s DP-QPSK signal in a silicon polarization diversity circuit

Dragana Vukovic (1, 2) , Jochen Schroeder (2) , Yunhong Ding (1) , Mark Pelusi (2) , Liang Bangyuan Du (3) , Haiyan Ou (1) , Christophe Peucheret (4)

1 Department of Photonics Engineering [Lyngby]
2 CUDOS
3 Department of Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering
4 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

Wavelength conversion of a 128 Gbit/s DP-QPSK signal is demonstrated using FWM in a polarization diversity circuit with silicon nanowires as nonlinear elements. Error-free performances are achieved with a negligible power penalty.

Mots clés: dual-polarization signals; Wavelength conversion device; four-wave mixing

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Dragana Vukovic, Jochen Schroeder, Yunhong Ding, Mark Pelusi, Liang Bangyuan Du, et al.. Wavelength conversion of a 128 Gbit/s DP-QPSK signal in a silicon polarization diversity circuit. 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference, 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society (IPC 2014), Oct 2014, San Diego, California, USA, United States. pp.312-313, ⟨10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995369⟩. ⟨hal-01075188⟩