Document Type
Article
Disciplines
2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
High performance all-optical quantizer based on silicon waveguide is believed to have significant applications in photonic integratable optical communication links, optical interconnection networks and real-time signal processing systems. In this paper, we propose an integratable all-optical quantizer for on-chip and low power consumption all-optical analog-to-digital converters. The quantization is realized by the strong cross-phase modulation and interference in a silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) slot waveguide based Mach-Zehnder interferometer. By carefully designing the dimension of the SOH waveguide, large nonlinear coefficients up to 16,000 and 18,069 W−1/m for the pump and probe signals can be obtained respectively, along with a low pulse walk-off parameter of 66.7 fs/mm and all-normal dispersion in the wavelength regime considered. Simulation results show that the phase shift of the probe signal can reach 8π at a low pump pulse peak power of 206 mW and propagation length of 5 mm such that a 4-bit all-optical quantizer can be realized. The corresponding signal-to-noise ratio is 23.42 dB and effective number of bit is 3.89-bit.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19528
Recommended Citation
Kang, Z., Yuan, J. & Zhang, X. (2016). On-Chip Integratable All-optical Quantizer Using Strong Cross-Phase Modulation In A Silicon-Organic Hybrid Slot Waveguide. Scientific Reports, vol. 6, article no. 19528. doi:10.1038/srep19528
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