Simultaneous RZ-OOK to NRZ-OOK and RZDPSK to NRZ-DPSK Format Conversion in a Silicon Microring Resonator

Optics Express 2012
Meng Xiong, Oskars Ozoliņš, Yunhong Ding, Bo Huang, Yi An, Haiyan Ou, Christophe Peucheret, Xinliang Zhang

Simultaneous RZ-OOK to NRZ-OOK and RZ-DPSK to NRZDPSK modulation format conversion in a single silicon microring resonator with free spectral range equal to twice the signal bit rate is experimentally demonstrated for the first time at 41.6 Gb/s. By utilizing an optimized custom-made microring resonator with high coupling coefficient followed by an optical bandpass filter with appropriate bandwidth, good conversion performances for both modulation formats are achieved according to the converted signals eye diagrams and bit-error-rate measurements.

Keywords
(060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4080) Modulation; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (130.7408) Wavelength filtering devices.
DOI
10.1364/OE.20.027263
Hyperlink
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-20-25-27263

Xiong, M., Ozoliņš, O., Ding, Y., Huang, B., An, Y., Ou, H., Peucheret, C., Zhang, X. Simultaneous RZ-OOK to NRZ-OOK and RZDPSK to NRZ-DPSK Format Conversion in a Silicon Microring Resonator. Optics Express, 2012, Vol.20, Iss.25, pp.27263-27272. e-ISSN 1094-4087. Available from: doi:10.1364/OE.20.027263

Publication language
English (en)