TY - GEN
T1 - Giant enhancement in signal contrast using integrated all-optical nonlinear thresholder
AU - Huang, Chaoran
AU - de Lima, Thomas Ferreira
AU - Jha, Aashu
AU - Abbaslou, Siamak
AU - Shastri, Bhavin J.
AU - Prucnal, Paul R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under grant number N000141612249. We also acknowledge the support of Applied Nanotools Inc. for their fabrication support.
Publisher Copyright:
© OSA 2019 © 2019 The Author(s)
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, an all-optical nonlinear thresholder on a silicon photonic integrated circuit. This thresholder enhances signal amplitude contrast 40-fold and improves receiver sensitivity by 10 dB.
AB - We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, an all-optical nonlinear thresholder on a silicon photonic integrated circuit. This thresholder enhances signal amplitude contrast 40-fold and improves receiver sensitivity by 10 dB.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085546075
SN - 9781943580538
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2019
PB - Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
T2 - Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2019
Y2 - 3 March 2019 through 7 March 2019
ER -