Title :
High-speed on-chip photonic link based on ultralow-power microring modulator
Author :
Xi Xiao ; Hao Xu ; Xianyao Li ; Zhiyong Li ; Yu Yude ; Yu Jinzhong
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. Technol. & Networks, Wuhan Res. Inst. of Posts & Telecommun., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We present an ~15 GHz silicon-based on-chip photonic link composed of a 0.5 V-Vpp, 25 Gb/s tunable microring modulator and a 40 GHz Ge-on-Si photodetector. Low-Vpp data transmissions of 12.5-20 Gb/s are experimentally demonstrated.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical modulation; silicon; Ge-on-Si photodetector; Si-Ge; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s to 20 Gbit/s; frequency 40 GHz; high-speed on-chip photonic link; low-Vpp data transmissions; silicon-based on-chip photonic link; tunable microring modulator; ultralow-power microring modulator; Bandwidth; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Photonics; Silicon; System-on-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu2E.6
