Ultrafast and bias-free all-optical wavelength conversion using III-V-on-silicon technology |
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Authors: | Kumar Rajesh Spuesens Thijs Mechet Pauline Kumar Pragati Raz Oded Olivier Nicolas Fedeli Jean-Marc Roelkens Gunther Baets Roel Van Thourhout Dries Morthier Geert |
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Affiliation: | Photonics Research Group, INTEC Department, Ghent University-IMEC, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Rajesh.Kumar@intec.ugent.be |
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Abstract: | Using a 7.5 μm diameter disk fabricated with III-V-on-silicon fabrication technology, we demonstrate bias-free all-optical wavelength conversion for non-return-to-zero on-off keyed pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) data at the speed of 10 Gbits/s with an extinction ratio of more than 12 dB. The working principle of such a wavelength converter is based on free-carrier-induced refractive index modulation in a pump-probe configuration. We believe it to be the first bias-free on-chip demonstration of all-optical wavelength conversion using PRBS data. All-optical gating measurements in the pump-probe configuration with the same device have revealed that it is possible to achieve wavelength conversion beyond 20 Gbits/s. |
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