Highly Sensitive, 112 Gb/s O-band Waveguide Coupled Silicon-Germanium Avalanche Photodetectors

Alireza Samani, Olivier Carpentier, Eslam El‐Fiky, Maxime Jacques, Amar Kumar, Yun Wang, Laurent Guenin, C. Gamache, Ping-Chiek Koh, David V. Plant

2019 · 11 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We present two different waveguide coupled SiGe APDs. We report 25 Gb/s error free operation with −12 dBm input power. Additionally, 112 Gb/s PAM-4 operation below the KP4-FEC threshold of 2.0 × 10−4 is reported.

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