Silicon-Organic Hybrid MZI Modulator Generating OOK, BPSK and 8-ASK Signals for Up to 84 Gbit/s

Author

Palmer, R. ; Alloatti, L. ; Korn, D. ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Heni, Wolfgang ; Koenig, S. ; Bolten, Jens ; Wahlbrink, Thorsten ; Waldow, M. ; Yu, Haoyong ; Bogaerts, W. ; Verheyen, P. ; Lepage, G. ; Pantouvaki, M. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; A

Author_Institution

Inst. IPQ &IMT, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

5

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Firstpage

6600907

Lastpage

6600907

Abstract

We report on high-speed multilevel signal generation and arbitrary pulse shaping with silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulators. Pure phase modulation exploiting the linear electrooptic effect allows the generation of multiple modulations formats at highest speed such as 40-Gbit/s on-off-keying (OOK) and binary-phase-shift keying (BPSK) and 28-Gbd 4-ASK and 8-ASK with data rates up to 84 Gbit/s. Additionally, beside NRZ pulse shaping, for the first time, Nyquist pulse shaping with silicon modulators is demonstrated to enable multiplexing at highest spectral efficiency.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; electro-optical effects; elemental semiconductors; multiplexing; optical communication; optical pulse shaping; phase shift keying; silicon; 8-ASK signals; BPSK signals; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Nyquist pulse shaping; OOK signals; Si; arbitrary pulse shaping; binary-phase-shift keying; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; high-speed multilevel signal generation; linear electrooptic effect; multiple modulations formats; multiplexing; on-off-keying; phase modulation; silicon-organic hybrid MZI modulator; Binary phase shift keying; Electrooptic effects; Electrooptical waveguides; Silicon; Electrooptic modulators; photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2258142

Filename

6502647