Title :
OOK and PAM optical modulation using a single drive push pull silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator
Author :
Samani, Alireza ; Patel, Dinesh ; Ghosh, Sudip ; Veerasubramanian, Venkat ; Qiuhang Zhong ; Wei Shi ; Plant, David V.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We report a successful demonstration of 4 level pulse amplitude modulation using a travelling-wave silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator. The modulator operates up to 20 Gbaud PAM-4 modulation with measured error free OOK operation of 35 Gbps.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; pulse amplitude modulation; silicon; 4 level pulse amplitude modulation; OOK optical modulation; PAM optical modulation; Si; single drive push pull silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator; Adaptive optics; Junctions; Optical modulation; Radio frequency; Silicon; Strips; Electrooptic Modulator; Photonic integrated circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2282-6
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2014.6962040
