A 100 Gb/s PAM-4 Silicon Photonic Transmitter with Two Binary-Driven EAMs in MZI Structure
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Talkhooncheh, Arian Hashemi; Zilkie, Aaron; Yu, Guomin; Shafiiha, Roshanak; Emami, Azita
- Source
- 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Photonics Conference (IPC),2021 IEEE. :1-2 Oct, 2021
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Couplings
Semiconductor device measurement
Voltage measurement
Power demand
Layout
Silicon photonics
Optical transmitters
Silicon Photonics
PAM-4 Transmitter
Electro-absorption Modulator
EAM
Optical Interconnects
Unbalanced Coupler
- Language
- ISSN
- 2575-274X
An integrated DAC-less PAM-4 transmitter in a multi-micron silicon photonics platform using 2 binary-driven uneven-length SiGe EAMs in an unbalanced MZI is presented. The optical transmitter exhibits 5.5dB ER at 100 Gb/s with 2.1dB SNR improvement compared to single EAMs driven by PAM-4 signals.