Hybrid Silicon Photonic Circuits and Transceiver for 50 Gb/s NRZ Transmission Over Single-Mode Fiber

Author

Denoyer, Gilles ; Cole, Chris ; Santipo, Antonio ; Russo, Riccardo ; Robinson, Curtis ; Li, Lionel ; Yuxin Zhou ; Chen, Jianxiao Alan ; Park, Bryan ; Boeuf, Frederic ; Cremer, Sebastien ; Vulliet, Nathalie

Author_Institution

Finisar Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

March15, 15 2015

Firstpage

1247

Lastpage

1254

Abstract

This paper presents a 50 Gb/s per lane hybrid BiCMOS and silicon photonic integrated circuit for use in fiber optic communications. Fine pitch copper pillars are used to integrate electronics and silicon photonics. The resulting device demonstrates the generation and detection of up to 56 Gb/s NRZ optical signals over 2-km standard single-mode fiber at 1310-nm wavelength. At 40 Gb/s, the link operates error free, and at 56 Gb/s well below KR4 RS-FEC operating BER. The power dissipation of TX including CW laser is 600 mW (450-mW driver, 150-mW CW laser), RX is 150 mW, resulting in total per channel of less than 750 mW.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; error statistics; integrated optics; optical communication; optical transceivers; BER; NRZ transmission over single mode fiber; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; bit rate 56 Gbit/s; error free; fiber optic communications; hybrid BiCMOS; hybrid silicon photonic circuits; hybrid silicon photonic transceiver; pitch copper pillars; power dissipation; silicon photonic integrated circuit; High-speed optical techniques; Integrated circuits; Integrated optics; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Silicon photonics; 50??Gb/s; 50Gb/s; Mach-Zehnder Modulator,; Mach???Zehnder modulator; Silicon photonics; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2397315

Filename

7024112