Flexible Transmitter Employing Silicon-Segmented Mach-Zehnder Modulator with 32-nm CMOS Distributed Driver

Tam N. Huynh; Nicolas Dupuis; Renato Rimolo-Donadio; Jonathan E. Proesel; Doug M. Gill; Christian W. Baks; Alexander V. Rylyakov; Clint L. Schow; William M.J. Green; Benjamin G. Lee

doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2606558

Flexible Transmitter Employing Silicon-Segmented Mach-Zehnder Modulator with 32-nm CMOS Distributed Driver

Tam N. Huynh, Nicolas Dupuis, Renato Rimolo-Donadio, Jonathan E. Proesel, Doug M. Gill, Christian W. Baks, Alexander V. Rylyakov, Clint L. Schow, William M.J. Green, Benjamin G. Lee

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We propose a flexible optical transmitter for the short-reach optical interconnects that includes a silicon photonic segmented Mach-Zehnder modulator driven by a distributed six-channel 32-nm silicon on insulator (SOI) complementary metaloxide semiconductor driver integrated circuit. Optical equalization is demonstrated to extend the bandwidth limitation of the transmitter with non-return to zero signaling at 25Gb/s. We also generate four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) signaling using the same transmitter architecture. Transmission of 46 Gb/s PAM-4 signal with bit error rate (BER) well below hard-decision forward error correction limit is experimentally demonstrated. Low driver power consumption of 130 mW at 46Gb/s PAM-4, corresponding to 2.8 pJ/bit power efficiency, is also achieved.

Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	5129-5136
Número de páginas	8
Publicación	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volumen	34
N.º	22
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2606558
Estado	Publicada - 15 nov 2016

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