Small-size Silicon Photonic IQ modulator and low-power CMOS driver for next generation Coherent Transceivers

Author

Milivojevic, Biljana ; Wiese, Stefan ; Raabe, Christian ; Shastri, Anujit ; Webster, Mark ; Metz, Peter ; Chattin, Bill ; Dama, Bipin ; Shastri, Kalpendu

Author_Institution

Cisco Opt. GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

10-12 July 2013

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

We report on the smallest Silicon Photonic modulator and lowest power Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Mach-Zehnder Modulator (CMOS MZM) Driver for next generation Coherent Transceivers. Bit-Error-Ratio (BER) characterization of this device demonstrates comparable performance relative to a commercial Lithium Niobate (LN) modulator and capability of highperformance transmission for long-haul applications.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; error statistics; optical modulation; optical transceivers; silicon; BER characterization; CMOS MZM Driver; LN modulator; Si; bit-error-ratio characterization; commercial lithium niobate modulator; high-performance transmission; long-haul applications; low-power CMOS driver; next generation coherent transceivers; power complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator driver; small-size silicon photonic IQ modulator; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Photonics; Silicon; Coherent communications; Modulators; Silicon Photonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Optical Communications (NOC), 2013 18th European Conference on and Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (OC&i), 2013 8th Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5821-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOC-OCI.2013.6582887

Filename

6582887