Title :
Creating RZ data modulation formats using parallel silicon microring modulators for pulse carving in DPSK
Author :
Zhang, Lin ; Li, Yunchu ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Beausoleil, Raymond G. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
We propose ultra-small silicon microring-based pulse carvers operated at 10 Gb/s. RZ-DPSK transmitter is obtained in chip-size of only tens of mum2 and exhibits lower power-penalty than MZM-based one by 1.7 dB in data transmission.
Keywords :
data communication; differential phase shift keying; integrated optoelectronics; laser cavity resonators; light interferometry; micro-optics; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; optical transmitters; ring lasers; silicon; RZ data modulation format; RZ-DPSK transmitter; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; differential phase shift keying modulator; double-waveguide configuration; microring resonator; one-bit delay line interferometer; optical communication system; parallel silicon microring modulator; pulse carving; Amplitude modulation; Chirp; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Extinction ratio; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Pulse modulation; Silicon; Voltage; (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (130.0130) Integrated optics; (200.4650) Optical interconnects; (230.4110) Modulators; (999.9999) Silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
