Thin-film BTO-based modulators enabling 200 Gb/s data rates with sub 1 Vpp drive signal
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Eltes, Felix; Li, Weijia; Berikaa, Essam; Samiul Alam, Md; Bernal, Santiago; Minkenberg, Cyriel; Plant, David V.; Abel, Stefan
- Source
- 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023. :1-3 Mar, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Performance evaluation
Tuners
Power lasers
Modulation
Receivers
Production
Silicon photonics
- Language
We demonstrate BTO-enhanced silicon photonics enabling compact, low-loss modulator PICs delivering net PAM4 data rates below HD-FEC threshold of 200 Gb/s in a driver-less setup with linear Rx DSP, at 9 fJ/bit electrical power dissipation.