40 Channels × 57 Gb/s monolithically integrated InP-based coherent photonic transmitter

Author

Summers, J. ; Vallaitis, T. ; Evans, Pete ; Ziari, Mehrdad ; Studenkov, P. ; Fisher, Matt ; Sena, J. ; James, Ashish ; Corzine, Scott ; Pavinski, Don ; Yang, J. Ou ; Missey, Mark ; Gold, D. ; Lambert, Damien ; Williams, W. ; Lai, Mingyong ; Kish, Fred ; W

Author_Institution

Infinera Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A dual-polarization QPSK transmitter is demonstrated with a record 40 tunable distributed feedback lasers, 80 nested Mach-Zehnder-modulators, and other elements totaling over 1700 functions monolithically integrated on a single InP-based chip that is capable of delivering 2.25 Tb/s.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; distributed feedback lasers; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; InP; Mach-Zehnder-modulators; bit rate 2.25 Tbit/s; dual-polarization QPSK transmitter; monolithically integrated InP-based coherent photonic transmitter; single InP-based chip; tunable distributed feedback lasers; Integrated optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Cannes

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963890

Filename

6963890