PIC-to-PIC Experiment at 130Gb/s Based on a Monolithic Transmitter using Switching of Prefixed Optical Phases and a Monolithic Coherent Receiver
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PIC-to-PIC Experiment at 130Gb/s Based on a Monolithic Transmitter using Switching of Prefixed Optical Phases and a Monolithic Coherent Receiver
- Author:
H. Mardoyan, O. Bertran-Pardo, P. Jennevé, G. de Valicourt, M.A. Mestre, S. Bigo, C. Kazmierski, N. Chimot, A.G. Steffan, J. Honecker, R. Zhang, P. Runge, A. Richter, C. Arellano, A. Ortega-Moñux, I. Molina-Fernandez
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) have attracted considerable research attention to reduce footprint and contain power consumption, and overall reduce the cost of photonic technologies, sometimes at the expense of trade-offs regarding performance. Important research milestones have already been achieved, but only few experiments connecting a PIC transmitter to PIC receiver has been reported. The most advanced reported a monolithic transmitter on Indium Phosphide (InP) platform with integrated lasers, modulators, an array waveguide grating. It was spliced to an integrated receiver including also an array waveguide grating, one single frequency laser per carrier, optical hybrids and photodiodes. In this transmitter, they relied on a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) built upon phase modulators, which did not allow them to exceed 14.3Gbaud symbol rate.
