Direct Modulation of Hybrid-Integrated InP/Si Transmitters for Short and Long Reach Access Network

Author

De Valicourt, Guilhem ; Levaufre, Guillaume ; Pointurier, Yvan ; Le Liepvre, A. ; Antona, J.-C. ; Jany, C. ; Accard, A. ; Lelarge, Francois ; Make, D. ; Guang-Hua Duan

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

33

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

April15, 15 2015

Firstpage

1608

Lastpage

1616

Abstract

Recent progresses on hybrid InP/Si integration are presented for achieving high-performance tunable transmitters for cost-sensitive wavelength division multiplexing access networks. We demonstrate the generation of on-off keying non return to zero modulation format using several types of integrated directly modulated and tunable lasers. The use of the high output power hybrid silicon transmitter enables up to 28.5 dB optical budget at BER = 3.8 × 10^-3 (in-band FEC assumed) under 10 Gb/s direct modulation over 25 and 50 km. Long-reach transmission over 100 km single-mode fiber is also demonstrated. Based on an enhanced modulation bandwidth hybrid laser, we successfully achieve 21.4 Gb/s direct modulation including FEC overhead on 12 wavelengths over a short-reach access link (10 km).

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; amplitude shift keying; elemental semiconductors; error statistics; forward error correction; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical links; optical modulation; optical transmitters; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; FEC overhead; InP-Si; cost-sensitive wavelength division multiplexing access network; forward error correction; high-performance tunable transmitter; hybrid laser modulation bandwidth enhancement; hybrid silicon transmitter direct modulation; long-reach transmission; on-off keying generation; optical budget; short-reach access link; single-mode fiber; zero modulation format; Cavity resonators; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Modulation; Optical ring resonators; Silicon; Access Network; Access network; Hybrid InP/Si laser; Integrated optics devices; Passive optical Network; colorless Optical Network unit; colorless optical network unit; hybrid InP/Si laser; integrated optics devices; passive optical network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2396297

Filename

7018949