Fabrication and Experimental Demonstration of a Four-Channel \,\times\,40 Gb/s TriPleX All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Platform

• Published in: Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 29; no. 12; pp. 1886 - 1891
• Main Authors: Stamatiadis, C, Vyrsokinos, K, Stampoulidis, L, Lazarou, I, Schrenk, B, Leinse, A, Heideman, R, Bruinink, C, Klein, E J, Avramopoulos, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 15.06.2011
• Subjects: Microring resonators; Optical device fabrication; Optical filters; optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; photonic integration; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Tuning; wavelength converters (WCs)
• ISSN: 0733-8724; 1558-2213
• DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2148692

We present a scalable circuit that performs multichannel, all-optical wavelength conversion employing semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and a densely integrated TriPleX photonic chip. The TriPleX device performs chirp filtering and signal polarity inversion with on-chip signal processing. The chip includes a total number of 40 arrays of Si 3 N 4 -SiO 2 microring resonators, delay interferometers and heating elements. The total footprint of each array is 2.19 mm 2 and the power consumption per integrated heater is below 80 mW. We have interconnected the TriPleX chip with SOAs and we demonstrate experimentally 4 × 40 Gb/s, parallel and wavelength tunable wavelength conversion with power penalties of less than 3 dB.