Title :
Silicon CMOS photonics platform for enabling high-speed DQPSK transceivers
Author :
Sanchis, Pablo ; Aamer, M. ; Brimont, Antoine ; Gutierrez, A.M. ; Sotiropoulos, Nikolaos ; de Waardt, H. ; Thomson, David J. ; Gardes, Frederic Y. ; Reed, Graham T. ; Ribaud, K. ; Grosse, P. ; Hartmann, J.M. ; Fedeli, J.-M. ; Marris-Morini, D. ; Cassan, E
Author_Institution :
Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. Valencia, València, Spain
Abstract :
In this work we review the results obtained under the framework of FP7-HELIOS project for integrated DQPSK transceivers in silicon photonics. A differential DQPSK receiver with balanced zero biased Germanium photodiodes has been demonstrated at 10Gbit/s with an error floor around 10-15. Furthermore, DPSK modulation up to 10Gbit/s with a bit error rate below 10-9 is also demonstrated using a silicon push-pull operated dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) based on carrier depletion. The results indicate the potential of the silicon CMOS photonics platform for boosting next-generation optical networks based on advanced modulation formats.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; modulators; optical receivers; optical transceivers; quadrature phase shift keying; DPSK modulation; FP7-HELIOS project; Si; advanced modulation formats; balanced zero biased germanium photodiodes; bit error rate; differential DQPSK receiver; high-speed DQPSK transceivers; integrated DQPSK transceivers; next-generation optical networks; silicon CMOS photonics platform; silicon photonics; silicon push-pull operated dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator; Bit error rate; Differential phase shift keying; Optical receivers; Photonics; Silicon; DQPSK; modulation; optical transceivers; photonic integrated circuits; silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602849
