DAC-less and amplifier-less generation and transmission of 16QAM signals using a sub-volt silicon photonic modulator

Author

Wolf, Stefan ; Lauermann, M. ; Ronniger, Gregor ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Palmer, R. ; Koeber, S. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Leuthold, Juerg ; Freude, W. ; Koos, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate generation and transmission of QPSK and 16QAM signals by directly interfacing highly efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulators to GTH ports of an FPGA. Peak-to-peak voltages amount to only 0.41 V_pp. Neither digital-to-analog converters (DAC) nor drive amplifiers are required.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; field programmable gate arrays; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon; 16QAM signals; DACless generation; FPGA; GTH ports; QPSK signal generation; QPSK signal transmission; Si; amplifierless generation; highly-efficient SOH modulators; highly-efficient silicon-organic hybrid modulators; peak-to-peak voltages; sub-volt silicon photonic modulator; Bit error rate; Electrooptic modulators; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical amplifiers; Phase shift keying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Cannes

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964272

Filename

6964272