Mode and Polarization Multiplexing in a Si Photonic Chip at 40Gb/s Aggregate Data Bandwidth

Author

Chen, C.P. ; Driscoll, J.B. ; Grote, R.R. ; Souhan, B. ; Osgood, R.M. ; Bergman, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

27

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan.1, 1 2015

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

25

Abstract

An on-chip error-free 40-Gb/s-aggregated-data-rate link is achieved by transmitting a single wavelength of dual polarization-multiplexed (pol-mux) data at 10 Gb/s through a two-mode mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) chip, with a power penalty of <;5 dB/channel. This is the first system-level experimental demonstration of combining pol-mux with MDM to enhance the performance of an on-chip Si photonics network, illustrating the potential to reduce total system electrical power budget by enabling multiple data channels with a single laser.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; multiplexing; network-on-chip; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; silicon; telecommunication channels; MDM; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; dual polarization-multiplexed data; multiple data channels; on-chip Si photonics network; on-chip error-free 40-Gb/s-aggregated-data-rate link; photonic chip; pol-mux; polarization multiplexing; power penalty; single laser; total system electrical power budget; two-mode mode-division-multiplexing chip; Crosstalk; Multiplexing; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Power measurement; Silicon; System-on-chip; Fiber optics and Optical Communications; Fiber optics and optical communications; Optical Interconnects; Silicon; Waveguides; optical interconnects; silicon; waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2360126

Filename

6910274