Polarization management for silicon photonic integrated circuits

D Dai, L Liu, S Gao, DX Xu, S He - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization management is very important for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and their
applications. Due to geometrical anisotropy and fabrication inaccuracies, the characteristics …

Dispersion engineering of a silicon-nanocrystal-based slot waveguide for broadband wavelength conversion

Q Liu, S Gao, Z Li, Y Xie, S He - Applied Optics, 2011 - opg.optica.org
A proposal for broadband wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing is presented
based on a slot waveguide with silicon nanocrystals (Si-nc's) as the optical nonlinear …

Energy consumption and energy density in optical and electronic signal processing

RS Tucker, K Hinton - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We compare the energy consumption of digital optical and digital electronic signal
processing circuits, including the contributions to energy consumption of the optical to …

Discrete parametric band conversion in silicon for mid-infrared applications

EK Tien, Y Huang, S Gao, Q Song, F Qian… - Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has great potential for mid-wave-infrared applications. The dispersion of
waveguide can be manipulated by waveguide dimension and cladding materials …

Polarization-independent chalcogenide glass nanowires with anomalous dispersion for all-optical processing

X Gai, DY Choi, S Madden, B Luther-Davies - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the design and fabrication of square Ge_11. 5As_24Se_64. 5 (Ge_11)
nonlinear nanowires fully embedded in a silica cladding for polarization independent (PI) …

Performance evaluation of nondegenerate wavelength conversion in a silicon nanowire waveguide

S Gao, Z Li, EK Tien, S He… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of wavelength conversion based on nondegenerate four-wave mixing
(FWM) with two pumps is theoretically evaluated in a silicon nanowire waveguide. A …

All-optical wavelength conversion for mode-division multiplexing signals using four-wave mixing in a dual-mode fiber

W Pan, Q Jin, X Li, S Gao - JOSA B, 2015 - opg.optica.org
All-optical wavelength conversion for mode-division multiplexing (MDM) signals is
theoretically demonstrated by using the four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in a dual-mode fiber …

Polarization insensitive wavelength conversion in a dispersion-engineered silicon waveguide

M Pu, H Hu, C Peucheret, H Ji, M Galili… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate polarization-insensitive all optical wavelength conversion of
a 10-Gb/s DPSK data signal based on four-wave mixing in a silicon waveguide with an …

Ultra-broadband one-to-two wavelength conversion using low-phase-mismatching four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides

S Gao, EK Tien, Q Song, Y Huang, O Boyraz - Optics Express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
An ultra-broadband wavelength conversion is presented and experimentally demonstrated
based on nondegenerate four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides. Two idlers can be …

All-optical wavelength conversion and multicasting for polarization-multiplexed signal using angled pumps in a silicon waveguide

Y Xie, S Gao, S He - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report all-optical wavelength conversion and multicasting for a 20 Gb/s (2× 10 Gb/s)
polarization-multiplexed (Pol-MUX) nonreturn-to-zero amplitude-shift keying signal using …