Title :
Robust and compact 45 Gb/s MMI-based SOI-DPSK demodulator for on-chip optical IO layer
Author :
Hai, Mohammed Shafiqul ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A 150 μm2 45 Gb/s SOI-DPSK demodulator maintains good performance (ER>17 dB, BER<;10-9) over 6.5% variation in the core length of 1×2 MMI couplers for single ended photodetection and 3 dB power penalty/0C variation in temperature.
Keywords :
demodulators; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; integrated optoelectronics; light interference; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; photodetectors; silicon-on-insulator; BER; MMI couplers; Si; bit rate 45 Gbit/s; compact MMI-based SOI-DPSK demodulator; core length; differential phase shift keying; multimode interference; on-chip optical IO layer; power penalty; robust MMI-based SOI-DPSK demodulator; silicon-on-insulator; single ended photodetection; Bit error rate; Couplers; Demodulation; Differential phase shift keying; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
