TY - JOUR
T1 - Dual SOA-MZI wavelength converters based on III-V hybrid integration on a μm-scale si platform
AU - Fitsios, Dimitrios
AU - Alexoudi, Theonitsa
AU - Kanellos, George T.
AU - Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos
AU - Pleros, Nikos
AU - Tekin, Tolga
AU - Cherchi, Matteo
AU - Ylinen, Sami
AU - Harjanne, Mikko
AU - Kapulainen, Markku
AU - Aalto, Timo
PY - 2014/3/15
Y1 - 2014/3/15
N2 - We report on the simultaneous wavelength conversion operation of a dual-element semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) array hybridly integrated on a 4-μm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide platform through thermocompression bonding. The SOAs are part of a six-element SOA array with both facets coupled on SOI through vertical and horizontal alignments. The device achieves almost two orders of magnitude reduction in footprint compared with state-of-the-art hybridly integrated SOA-MZI structures. We present for the first time experimental proof of the successful operation of a dual-element SOA-MZI device based on III-V technology on SoI that serves as a wavelength converter, with one SOA-MZI yielding error-free performance with a 0.8-dB power penalty at 12.5 Gb/s and the second SOA-MZI operating error-free at 10 Gb/s with a 2-dB power penalty.
AB - We report on the simultaneous wavelength conversion operation of a dual-element semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) array hybridly integrated on a 4-μm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide platform through thermocompression bonding. The SOAs are part of a six-element SOA array with both facets coupled on SOI through vertical and horizontal alignments. The device achieves almost two orders of magnitude reduction in footprint compared with state-of-the-art hybridly integrated SOA-MZI structures. We present for the first time experimental proof of the successful operation of a dual-element SOA-MZI device based on III-V technology on SoI that serves as a wavelength converter, with one SOA-MZI yielding error-free performance with a 0.8-dB power penalty at 12.5 Gb/s and the second SOA-MZI operating error-free at 10 Gb/s with a 2-dB power penalty.
KW - Dual-facet coupling
KW - Hybrid integration
KW - Mach-Zehnder interferometer
KW - Semiconductor optical amplifier
KW - Thermocompression bonding
KW - Wavelength conversion
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2013.2297404
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2013.2297404
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84897713822
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 26
SP - 560
EP - 563
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 6
M1 - 6701128
ER -