OSIRIS

Optical signal regeneration in slow light silicon waveguides

Coordinatore	THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS    more  Organization address address: NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE city: ST ANDREWS FIFE postcode: KY16 9AJ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Trish Cognome: Starrs Email: send email Telefono: +44 1334 462593 Fax: +44 1334 462217
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	181˙350 €
EC contributo	181˙350 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-09-28   -   2011-09-27

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS  Organization address address: NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE city: ST ANDREWS FIFE postcode: KY16 9AJ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Trish Cognome: Starrs Email: send email Telefono: +44 1334 462593 Fax: +44 1334 462217	UK (ST ANDREWS FIFE)	coordinator	181˙350.77

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In modern optical communication systems, signal degradation in the optical channel caused by dispersion, nonlinearity and noise in the fibre is a critical issue. This issue is currently addressed with electronic devices using optical-electronic-optical (oeo) conversion, which are inefficient and expensive. Low power all-optical data processing devices, such as all-optical regenerators, offer an alternative solution. Optical regeneration can be promisingly performed using the four-wave mixing effect and is intended to reshape, re-amplify and retime the signal in the optical domain, which removes the need for oeo conversion and is transparent to the data rate. OSIRIS proposes to develop a multichannel regenerator based on four-wave mixing. The regenerator will be based on a photonic crystal waveguide that exploits slow light effects. Ideally, the FWM effect can be enhanced by the fourth power of the slowdown factor. This significant effect allows us to reduce the length of the device or the pump power, or both. OSIRIS will explore the extent to which this exciting promise can be realised in practise. The work will be based on specifically engineered slow light waveguides that the applicant developed during a 6-month visit to St. Andrews in 2007. Achievement of this goal will be demonstrated by realising efficient optical regeneration in an engineered slow light photonic crystal waveguide of only 100's of micrometres in length, using only mW's of optical power. This corresponds to two orders of magnitude improvement or better in device performance compared to the State-of-the-Art.'