Photonic crystal resonators for inverse-designed multi-dimensional optical interconnects

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a 400 Gbit/s optical communication link utilizing wavelength-division multiplexing and mode-division multiplexing for a total of 40 channels. This link utilizes a novel, to the best of our knowledge, 400 GHz frequency comb source based on a chip-scale photonic crystal resonator. Silicon-on-insulator photonic inverse-designed 4 × 4 mode-division multiplexer structures enable a fourfold increase in data capacity. We show less than −10 dBm of optical receiver power for error-free data transmission in 34 out of a total of 40 channels using a PRBS31 pattern.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 09, 2022
Source ID
10.1364/ol.461272

Entities

People

  • Chinmay Shirpurkar
  • D. Lukin
  • David R Carlson
  • E. Lucas
  • Firooz Aflatouni
  • Geun Ho Ahn
  • J. Vuckovic
  • Jeremy Yang
  • Jizhao Zang
  • K. Y. Yang
  • L. Trask
  • Lu Jie
  • Matthew Guidry
  • P. J. Delfyett
  • Scott B. Papp
  • Srinivas Varma Pericherla
  • Su-Peng Yu

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • National Science Foundation
  • Stanford University
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Pennsylvania

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution