IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2013)
Silicon-Organic Hybrid MZI Modulator Generating OOK, BPSK and 8-ASK Signals for Up to 84 Gbit/s
- R. Palmer,
- L. Alloatti,
- D. Korn,
- P. C. Schindler,
- R. Schmogrow,
- W. Heni,
- S. Koenig,
- J. Bolten,
- T. Wahlbrink,
- M. Waldow,
- H. Yu,
- W. Bogaerts,
- P. Verheyen,
- G. Lepage,
- M. Pantouvaki,
- J. Van Campenhout,
- P. Absil,
- R. Dinu,
- W. Freude,
- C. Koos,
- J. Leuthold
Affiliations
- R. Palmer
- <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{1}$</tex></formula> Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- L. Alloatti
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- D. Korn
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- P. C. Schindler
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- R. Schmogrow
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- W. Heni
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- S. Koenig
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- J. Bolten
- <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{2}$</tex></formula>AMO GmbH, Aachen, Germany
- T. Wahlbrink
- AMO GmbH, Aachen, Germany
- M. Waldow
- AMO GmbH, Aachen, Germany
- H. Yu
- <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{3}$</tex></formula>Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—IMEC, Gent, Belgium
- W. Bogaerts
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—IMEC , Gent, Belgium
- P. Verheyen
- <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{4}$</tex></formula> IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium
- G. Lepage
- IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium
- M. Pantouvaki
- IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium
- J. Van Campenhout
- IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium
- P. Absil
- IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium
- R. Dinu
- <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{5}$</tex></formula> GigOptix Inc., Switzerland and GigOptix, Bothell, WA, USA
- W. Freude
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- C. Koos
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- J. Leuthold
- Institutes IPQ and IMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2258142
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 5,
no. 2
pp. 6600907 – 6600907
Abstract
We report on high-speed multilevel signal generation and arbitrary pulse shaping with silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulators. Pure phase modulation exploiting the linear electrooptic effect allows the generation of multiple modulations formats at highest speed such as 40-Gbit/s on-off-keying (OOK) and binary-phase-shift keying (BPSK) and 28-Gbd 4-ASK and 8-ASK with data rates up to 84 Gbit/s. Additionally, beside NRZ pulse shaping, for the first time, Nyquist pulse shaping with silicon modulators is demonstrated to enable multiplexing at highest spectral efficiency.
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