High bit rate all-optical signal processing in a fiber photonic wire
Author(s) -
Mark Pelusi,
Feng Luan,
Eric Mägi,
Michael R. E. Lamont,
David Moss,
Benjamin J. Eggleton,
Jas Sanghera,
L. Brandon Shaw,
Ishwar D. Aggarwal
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.16.011506
Subject(s) - optics , materials science , four wave mixing , photonic crystal fiber , photonics , optical fiber , multi mode optical fiber , signal (programming language) , signal processing , chalcogenide glass , multiplexing , dispersion (optics) , power (physics) , single mode optical fiber , optoelectronics , chalcogenide , nonlinear optics , electronic engineering , physics , telecommunications , digital signal processing , computer science , laser , quantum mechanics , programming language , engineering
We report the first demonstration of high bit rate signal processing by a fiber-based photonic wire. We achieve 160 Gb/s demultiplexing via four wave mixing in a 1.9 microm diameter photonic wire tapered from As(2)S(3) chalcogenide glass single mode fibre, with very low pump power requirements ( < 20 mW average power, 0.45 W peak power), enabled by a very high nonlinearity (gamma approximately 7850 W(-1) km (-1) ) and greatly reduced dispersion.
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