11-Gbps 80-km transmission performance of zero-chirp silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator

Author

Goi, Kazuhiro ; Oda, K. ; Kusaka, Hiroyuki ; Terada, Yuki ; Ogawa, Koichi ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Guo-Qiang Lo ; Dim-Lee Kwong

Author_Institution

Opt. & Electron. Lab., Fujikura Ltd., Sakura, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Zero-chirp operation of silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator is achieved in 11.1-Gbps on-off keying and 22.3-Gbps binary phase-shift keying. Low-dispersion-penalty transmission up to 80 km is proved in 11.3-Gbps bit-error-rate measurement for the zero-chirp silicon modulator with performance comparable with a commercialised lithium-niobate modulator.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; elemental semiconductors; error statistics; light transmission; modulators; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; phase shift keying; silicon; Si; binary phase-shift keying; bit rate 11 Gbit/s; bit rate 11.1 Gbit/s; bit rate 11.3 Gbit/s; bit rate 22.3 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate measurement; commercialised lithium-niobate modulator; distance 80 km; high-speed long-haul optical fibre telecommunication system; low-dispersion-penalty transmission performance; on-off keying; zero-chirp silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator; Bit error rate; Modulation; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

Filename

6706149