Open AccessTime domain switching / demultiplexing using four wave mixing in GaInP photonic crystal waveguides
Author(s) -
I. Cestier,
A. Willinger,
Vardit Eckhouse,
G. Eisenstein,
Sylvain Combrié,
Pierre Colman,
Gaëlle Lehoucq,
Alfredo De Rossi
Publication year - 2011
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.19.006093
Subject(s) - four wave mixing , optics , photonic crystal , waveguide , multiplexing , wavelength , mixing (physics) , wavelength division multiplexing , materials science , optoelectronics , signal (programming language) , photonics , nonlinear optics , physics , telecommunications , laser , computer science , quantum mechanics , programming language
We describe dynamical four wave mixing (FWM) functionalities of an GaInP photonic crystal waveguide. A W1 waveguide was used to wavelength convert 100 ps pulses and for sampling a 10.56 Gbit/s data stream so as to time demultiplex it into 16 or 32 channels. In all cases, the extracted pulses at the idler wavelength are undistorted and have a high signal to noise ratio proving the high efficiency and the versatility of the FWM process in the GaInP PhC waveguides we used.