Author :
Melikyan, A. ; Koehnle, K. ; Lauermann, M. ; Palmer, R. ; Koeber, S. ; Muehlbrandt, S. ; Schindler, P.C. ; Elder, D.L. ; Wolf, S. ; Heni, W. ; Haffner, C. ; Fedoryshyn, Y. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Sommer, M. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Van Thourhout, D. ; Freude, W. ; Koh
Author_Institution :
Inst. IMT & IPQ, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
We report on plasmonic-organic hybrid(POH) phase modulator generating error free (BER<;10-10) BPSK signals at 40Gbit/s. In addition, generation and direct detection of 40Gbit/s OOK signals are discussed using POH Mach-Zehnder modulators on the transmitter side.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; electro-optical modulation; error statistics; optical transmitters; phase shift keying; plasmonics; BER; BPSK signaling; OOK signaling; POH Mach-Zehnder modulators; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; error free BPSK signals; plasmonic-organic hybrid phase modulator; transmitter; Adaptive optics; Binary phase shift keying; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Plasmons;