Low Power Optical Transmitter with DFB-Laser Mach-Zehnder Modulator PIC and Co-Designed 2-Bit DAC Driver
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lange, S.; Choi, J.-H.; Gruner, M.; Jiang, X.; Schell, M.
- Source
- 2017 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2017 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical transmitters
Bit error rate
Modulation
Power demand
Bandwidth
Equalizers
- Language
We present a novel 1300 nm transmitter subassembly with an InP-based DFB-laser Mach-Zehnder modulator (DFB-MZM) PIC and a SiGe 2-bit DAC driver and demonstrate up to 25 km 56 GBd PAM4 transmission with a low 332 mW transmitter power consumption.