• DocumentCode
    2157805
  • Title

    Error-free transmission of DPSK at 5 Gb/s using a silicon microring modulator

  • Author

    Padmaraju, Kishore ; Ophir, Noam ; Xu, Qianfan ; Schmidt, Bradley ; Shakya, Jagat ; Manipatruni, Sasikanth ; Lipson, Michal ; Bergman, Keren

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the first error-free transmission of DPSK using a microring modulator, with a power penalty of 1.1 dB in comparison to a commercial LiNbO3 phase modulator. Additionally, long-haul transmission of microring-modulated DPSK is characterized.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; modulators; optical modulation; silicon; LiNbO3; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; error-free transmission; long-haul transmission; microring-modulated DPSK; phase modulator; silicon microring modulator; Bit error rate; Differential phase shift keying; Lithium niobate; Optical modulation; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065920