Silicon CMOS photonics platform for enabling high-speed DQPSK transceivers

Sanchis, P., Aamer, M., Brimont, A., Gutiérrez, A.M., Sotiropoulos, N., de Waardt, H., Thomson, D.J., Gardes, F.Y., Reed, G.T., Ribaud, K., Grosse, P., Hartmann, J.M., Fédéli, J-M., Marris-Morini, D., Cassan, E., Vivien, L., Vermeulen, D., Roelkens, G. and Hakansson, A. (2013) Silicon CMOS photonics platform for enabling high-speed DQPSK transceivers. 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena, Spain. 23 - 27 Jun 2013. (doi:10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602849).

Abstract

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.

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Contributors

Author: F.Y. Gardes

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