Electronic–photonic convergence for silicon photonics transmitters beyond 100 Gbps on–off keying

Ke Li, Shenghao Liu, David J. Thomson, Weiwei Zhang, Xingzhao Yan, Fanfan Meng, Callum G. Littlejohns, Han Du, Mehdi Banakar, Martin Ebert,

Optica · 2020 · 74 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

We present design concepts for optical modulators without using any equalization or bespoke fabrication techniques. The demonstrated silicon photonics transmitter can operate at 100 Gbps OOK, while the power efficiency of the driver is 2.03 pJ/bit.

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