On-chip multi-level signal generation using cascaded microring modulator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Dube-Demers, Raphael; LaRochelle, Sophie; Shi, Wei
- Source
- 2016 IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference (OI) IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2016. :28-29 May, 2016
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Photonics and Electrooptics
Modulation
Photonics
Optical device fabrication
Optical ring resonators
Optical signal processing
Optical pulses
Adaptive optics
Optical modulator
Silicon-on-insulator
Integrated optics
Electro-optic modulation
Optical resonators
Ring resonators
Optical interconnects
- Language
We propose the use of a dual-microring system as an on-chip multi-level signal generator without using an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) signals up to 60 Gb/s have been experimentally achieved.