Silicon CMOS photonics platform for enabling high-speed DQPSK transceivers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sanchis, P.; Aamer, M.; Brimont, A.; Gutierrez, A.M.; Sotiropoulos, N.; de Waardt, H.; Thomson, D. J.; Gardes, F. Y.; Reed, G. T.; Ribaud, K.; Grosse, P.; Hartmann, J. M.; Fedeli, J.-M; Marris-Morini, D.; Cassan, E.; Vivien, L.; Vermeulen, D.; Roelkens, G.; Hakansson, A.
- Source
- 2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on. :1-4 Jun, 2013
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Silicon
Differential phase shift keying
Optical receivers
Bit error rate
Photonics
photonic integrated circuits
silicon photonics
optical transceivers
modulation
DQPSK
- Language
- ISSN
- 2162-7339
2161-2064
In this work we review the results obtained under the framework of FP7-HELIOS project for integrated DQPSK transceivers in silicon photonics. A differential DQPSK receiver with balanced zero biased Germanium photodiodes has been demonstrated at 10Gbit/s with an error floor around 10 −15 . Furthermore, DPSK modulation up to 10Gbit/s with a bit error rate below 10 −9 is also demonstrated using a silicon push-pull operated dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) based on carrier depletion. The results indicate the potential of the silicon CMOS photonics platform for boosting next-generation optical networks based on advanced modulation formats.