Silicon photonic modulators for PAM transmissions

W Shi, Y Xu, H Sepehrian, S LaRochelle… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed optical interconnects are crucial for both data centers and high performance
computing systems. High power consumption and limited device bandwidth have hindered …

200 Gbps/lane IM/DD technologies for short reach optical interconnects

X Pang, O Ozolins, R Lin, L Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Client-side optics are facing an ever-increasing upgrading pace, driven by upcoming 5G
related services and datacenter applications. The demand for a single lane data rate is soon …

A review of self-coherent optical transceivers: fundamental issues, recent advances, and research directions

I Alimi, R Patel, N Silva, C Sun, H Ji, W Shieh, A Pinto… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews recent progress on different high-speed optical short-and medium-reach
transmission systems. Furthermore, a comprehensive tutorial on high-performance, low-cost …

Real-time 100 Gb/s NRZ and EDB transmission with a GeSi electroabsorption modulator for short-reach optical interconnects

J Verbist, M Verplaetse, SA Srinivasan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Transceivers based on electroabsorption modulators (EAM) are considered as a promising
candidate for the next generation 400 GbE short-reach optical networks. They are capable of …

Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulators for intensity-modulation/direct-detection links with line rates of up to 120 Gbit/s

H Zwickel, S Wolf, C Kieninger, Y Kutuvantavida… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-speed interconnects in data-center and campus-area networks crucially rely on
efficient and technically simple transmission techniques that use intensity modulation and …

DAC-less and DSP-free 112 Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter using two parallel electroabsorption modulators

J Verbist, J Lambrecht, M Verplaetse… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) is widely regarded as the modulation format
of choice for the next generation of 400 gigabit Ethernet short-reach optical transceiver …

Real-time 100 Gbps/λ/core NRZ and EDB IM/DD transmission over multicore fiber for intra-datacenter communication networks

R Lin, J Van Kerrebrouck, X Pang, M Verplaetse… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A BiCMOS chip-based real-time intensity modulation/direct detection spatial division
multiplexing system is experimentally demonstrated for both optical interconnects. 100 …

Electroabsorption‐modulated laser as optical transmitter and receiver: status and opportunities

B Schrenk - IET Optoelectronics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid growth of digital services has led to a widespread deployment of opto‐electronics
that furnish the Internet as an efficient communication backbone. The electroabsorption …

100 Gbaud on–off keying/pulse amplitude modulation links in c-band for short-reach optical interconnects

O Ozolins, X Pang, A Udalcovs, R Schatz, S Spolitis… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
We experimentally evaluate the high-speed on–off keying (OOK) and four-level pulse
amplitude modulation (PAM4) transmitter's performance in C-band for short-reach optical …

100-Gb/s electro-absorptive duobinary modulation of an InP-on-Si DFB laser

A Abbasi, J Verbist, LA Shiramin… - IEEE Photonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
100-Gb/s single-channel optical data communication transceivers can provide a compact
and cost-effective solution for the exponentially growing data-center traffic. One of the …