Silicon photonic transmitter and receiver for hybrid multiplexing systems
Yingying Peng,
Hengzhen Cao,
Jin Xie,
Weike Zhao,
Yuluan Xiang,
Dajian Liu,
Zejie Yu,
Daoxin Dai
Affiliations
Yingying Peng
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Hengzhen Cao
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Jin Xie
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Weike Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Yuluan Xiang
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Dajian Liu
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Zejie Yu
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
Daoxin Dai
Corresponding author.; State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Pho-tonics, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
High-capacity on-chip optical transmitters and receivers are crucial for data transmissions. Currently, advanced multiplexing technologies, including wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), mode-division multiplexing (MDM), and polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) have been developed to greatly enhance the link capacity. In this paper, monolithically integrated silicon photonic transmitter and receiver with an ultra-high-capacity density of 37.0 Tbps/cm2 were proposed and demonstrated by introducing hybrid multiplexers and arrayed modulators/photodetectors. For the demonstrated transmitter/receiver chips, there are five wavelength channels and four mode channels with dual polarizations involved, while all these channels have low excess losses of 1 to 2 dB and low crosstalk less than −15 dB. Finally, all 20 channels are able to work with 50 Gbps on–off keying (OOK) signals per channel, achieving a total capacity of 1T-bps within an ultra-compact chip size of 0.032 cm2 for transmitters and 0.022 cm2 for receivers.
