1.28-Tb/s Demultiplexing of an OTDM DPSK Data Signal Using a Silicon Waveguide

Abstract

Abstract-This letter demonstrates optical demultiplexing of a 1.28-Tb/s serial differential phase-shift-keying data signal using a nano-engineered silicon waveguide. We first present error-free performance at 640 Gb/s and then at 1.28 Tb/s with characterization of all 128 channels. Bit-error rates below 10 9 are achieved for some channels and below forward-error-correction limit for all channels, corresponding to a 1.19-Tb/s error-free data signal.Index Terms-Nano-engineered silicon waveguide, optical communication, ultrafast optical signal processing.

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