IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2019)

52&#x00A0;km-Long Transmission Link Using a 50&#x00A0;Gb&#x002F;s <italic>O</italic>-Band Silicon Microring Modulator Co-Packaged With a 1V-CMOS Driver

  • Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios,
  • Stelios Pitris,
  • Theoni Alexoudi,
  • Hannes Ramon,
  • Xin Yin,
  • Johan Bauwelinck,
  • Yoojin Ban,
  • Peter De Heyn,
  • Joris Van Campenhout,
  • Nikos Pleros

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2921730
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 4
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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We present an O-band silicon microring modulator with up to 50 Gb/s modulation rates, co-packaged with a 1V-CMOS driver in a dispersion un-compensated, transmission experiment through 52 km of standard single-mode fiber. The experimental results show 10-9 error-rate operation with a negligible power penalty of 0.2 dB for 40 Gb/s and wide-open eye diagrams for 50 Gb/s data, corresponding to a record high bandwidth-distance product of 2600 Gb·km/s. A comparative analysis between the proposed transmitter assembly and a commercial LiNbO3 modulator revealed a moderate increase of 3.8 dB in power penalty, requiring only 20% of the driving voltage level used by the commercial modulator.

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