{"title":"Characterization of wavelength conversion by four wave mixing in silicon waveguides","authors":"W. Mathlouthi, H. Rong, M. Paniccia","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551421","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We characterize a silicon based wavelength converter using a commercial semiconductor amplifier based wavelength converter as a benchmark. Results show that silicon achieves -5.5 dB efficiency, offers broader conversion bandwidth, higher OSNR and negligible channel crosstalk.","PeriodicalId":6382,"journal":{"name":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551421","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We characterize a silicon based wavelength converter using a commercial semiconductor amplifier based wavelength converter as a benchmark. Results show that silicon achieves -5.5 dB efficiency, offers broader conversion bandwidth, higher OSNR and negligible channel crosstalk.