Photonics (Nov 2015)

Optical Characteristics of a Multichannel Hybrid Integrated Light Source for Ultra-High-Bandwidth Optical Interconnections

  • Takanori Shimizu,
  • Nobuaki Hatori,
  • Mitsuru Kurihara,
  • Yutaka Urino,
  • Tsuyoshi Yamamoto,
  • Takahiro Nakamura,
  • Yasuhiko Arakawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics2041131
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
pp. 1131 – 1138

Abstract

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The optical characteristics of a multi-channel hybrid integrated light source were described for an optical interconnection with a bandwidth of over 10 Tbit/s. The power uniformity of the relative intensity of a 1000-channel light source was shown, and the minimum standard deviation s of the optical power of the 200 output ports at each 25-channel laser diode (LD) array was estimated to be 0.49 dB. This hybrid integrated light source is expected to be easily adaptable to a photonics-electronics convergence system for ultra-high-bandwidth interchip interconnections.

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