Advanced Silicon Photonic Transceivers - the Case of a Wavelength Division and Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Receiver for Terabit/s Optical Transmission

Abstract

The PI developed silicon photonic coherent receivers that operate at 40 Gbaud and can handle advanced modulation formats by the cointegration of a passive 90 degree optical hybrid, high-speed balanced Ge photodetectors and a high-speed two-channel trans impedance amplifier. The device has record performance for an integrated silicon photonic receiver, both in terms of bitrate (160Gbit/s per wavelength and per polarization) as well as in terms of power consumption. This makes the device very appealing for integration into larger modules, combining both wavelength and space division multiplexing to reach multiple Tb/s receiver modules.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 10, 2017
Accession Number
AD1029704

Entities

People

  • Günther Roelkens
  • Roel Baets

Organizations

  • Ghent University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bandwidth
  • C Band
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Energy Consumption
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Measurement
  • Modulation
  • Networks
  • Phase Shift
  • Photodiodes
  • Photonic Devices
  • Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Transceivers

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution
  • Space