On-Chip Optical Sampling using an Integrated SOA-based Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zhuang, Leimeng; Zhu, Chen; Geng, Zihan; Song, Binhuang (Electro-Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia)
Corcoran, Bill; Lowery, Arthur (Electro-Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia & Centre of Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for optical systems (CUDOS), Monash University, Australia)

Abstract:
we report the first demonstration of on-chip optical sampling using an integrated SOA-based nonlinear optical loop mirror. The device implements a compact design featuring a size of 2 x 1.2 mm2 and a sampling window of ≈ 30 ps.