DocumentCode
680375
Title
Silicon micro-ring resonator based 16-QAM modulator for WDM transmission systems
Author
Bhowmik, B.B. ; Gupta, Swastik
Author_Institution
Electr. Eng. Dept., Indian Inst. of Technol. Patna, Patna, India
fYear
2013
fDate
13-15 Dec. 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
In this paper a silicon micro-ring resonator assisted 16-QAM modulator suitable for WDM application has been proposed. We have demonstrated successful operation of the proposed 16-QAM modulator operating at 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps bit-rate per channel for a three channel WDM system. The performance of the modulator for different channel separation has also been investigated using detailed numerical simulations.
Keywords
micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical resonators; quadrature amplitude modulation; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM modulator; WDM transmission systems; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; microring resonator; Channel spacing; Constellation diagram; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM; Micro-ring resonator; WDM system; optical modulator;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Dhanbad
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-2176-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICMAP.2013.6733528
Filename
6733528
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