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50 Gb/s silicon photonics receiver with low insertion loss

50 Gb/s silicon photonics receiver with low insertion loss
50 Gb/s silicon photonics receiver with low insertion loss
Optical (de)multiplexers which can provide low insertion loss, low cross-talk, high thermal stability and insensitivity to fabrication tolerances are essential components for silicon photonics integration. In this paper we demonstrate the integration of an angled multimode interferometer coarse wavelength division multiplexer with germanium p-i-n photodetectors to form a 50 Gb/s receiver with a low insertion loss of < -0.5 dB and cross-talk of < -15 dB. The angled multimode interferometer has the flexibility to be designed on a platform with a wide range of waveguide thicknesses with little variation in performance, which allows for the optimisation of other optical components in the photonics integrated circuit.
1041-1135
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Littlejohns, Callum
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Hu, Youfang
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Littlejohns, Callum, Hu, Youfang, Gardes, Frederic Y., Thomson, David J., Reynolds, Scott, Mashanovich, Goran Z. and Reed, Graham T. (2014) 50 Gb/s silicon photonics receiver with low insertion loss. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26 (7), 714-717. (doi:10.1109/LPT.2014.2303578).

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Optical (de)multiplexers which can provide low insertion loss, low cross-talk, high thermal stability and insensitivity to fabrication tolerances are essential components for silicon photonics integration. In this paper we demonstrate the integration of an angled multimode interferometer coarse wavelength division multiplexer with germanium p-i-n photodetectors to form a 50 Gb/s receiver with a low insertion loss of < -0.5 dB and cross-talk of < -15 dB. The angled multimode interferometer has the flexibility to be designed on a platform with a wide range of waveguide thicknesses with little variation in performance, which allows for the optimisation of other optical components in the photonics integrated circuit.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 January 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 January 2014
Published date: 1 April 2014
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 367863
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/367863
ISSN: 1041-1135
PURE UUID: 3fd48be6-81c1-4470-bdde-d03c9751d3cb
ORCID for Frederic Y. Gardes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-3272

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Date deposited: 08 Aug 2014 09:22
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:40

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Author: Youfang Hu
Author: Scott Reynolds
Author: Graham T. Reed

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