Experimental and theoretical demonstration of wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s RZ-OOK in a Si nanowire via XPM

We present all-optical wavelength conversion (WC) of 10 Gb/s RZ-OOK data in a Si nanowire waveguide via cross-phase-modulation (XPM). The WC mechanism is analytically modeled and shown to be scalable to 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK data. © 2010 Optical Society of America.