Abstract

Silicon photonics is a well established platform for the development of fully integrated optical devices for optical communication systems. In particular, the strong modal confinement typical of silicon waveguides enables the exploitation of nonlinear effects with much lower optical power levels. Different structures for all-optical signal processing have been reported in the last years, such as all optical modulators [1], wavelength converters [2-3], and optical switches [4].

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