A monolithically integrated silicon coherent receiver based on a novel scheme with a crossing-free 90° hybrid optical coupler and two balanced germanium photodetectors is reported. The integrated receiver is compact (footprint is 0.8à 1.0mm<sup>2</sup>), and it is demonstrated by working with single-polarization 56-Gb/s quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) and 80-Gb/s 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) signals. In particular, QPSK transmission that is back-to-back at 28 Gbaud shows a bit-error rate (BER) below 10<sup>-4</sup> for an optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) lower than 17 dB, whereas 16-QAM at 20 Gbaud shows a BER not better than 3<sup>â</sup>10<sup>-2</sup> because of the nonideal behavior of the device. Reasons for the performance limitations are discussed.
A compact silicon coherent receiver without waveguide crossing
FARALLI, STEFANO;GAMBINI, Fabrizio;KLAMKIN, Jonathan;CONTESTABILE, GIAMPIERO
2015-01-01
Abstract
A monolithically integrated silicon coherent receiver based on a novel scheme with a crossing-free 90° hybrid optical coupler and two balanced germanium photodetectors is reported. The integrated receiver is compact (footprint is 0.8à 1.0mm2), and it is demonstrated by working with single-polarization 56-Gb/s quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) and 80-Gb/s 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) signals. In particular, QPSK transmission that is back-to-back at 28 Gbaud shows a bit-error rate (BER) below 10-4 for an optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) lower than 17 dB, whereas 16-QAM at 20 Gbaud shows a BER not better than 3â10-2 because of the nonideal behavior of the device. Reasons for the performance limitations are discussed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
