Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator generating up to 84 Gbit/s BPSK and M-ASK signals

Author

Palmer, R. ; Alloatti, L. ; Korn, D. ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Baier, M. ; Koenig, S. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Bolten, Jens ; Wahlbrink, Thorsten ; Waldow, M. ; Dinu, R. ; Freude, W. ; Koos, C. ; Leuthold, Juerg

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report on high-speed multilevel signal generation with silicon-organic hybrid Mach-Zehnder modulators. Pure phase modulation exploiting the linear electro-optic effect allows to generate 28 GBd BPSK, 4-ASK and 8-ASK signals up to 84 Gbit/s.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; organic semiconductors; phase modulation; silicon; 4-ASK; 8-ASK; BPSK; SOH; Si; bit rate 84 Gbit/s; electro-optic effect; high-speed multilevel signal generation; phase modulation; silicon-organic hybrid Mach-Zehnder modulators; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Electrooptic modulators; Optical waveguides; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533218