A silicon photonics integrated reconfigurable nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer including tunable splitters and four independent phase modulators has been designed and fabricated. Thanks to the custom architecture, 16-QAM modulation is achieved with simple binary driving signals and successfully detected up to 20Gbaud with BER below the FEC level.
Silicon photonics integrated 16-QAM modulator exploiting only binary driving electronics / Fresi, F., Velha, P., Meloni, G., Malacarne, A., Sorianello, V., Midrio, M., Toccafondo, V., Faralli, S., Romagnoli, M., Poti', L.. - (2016). (2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2016 usa 2016) [10.1364/ofc.2016.th3j.6].
Silicon photonics integrated 16-QAM modulator exploiting only binary driving electronics
VELHA, PHILIPPESecondo
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2016-01-01
Abstract
A silicon photonics integrated reconfigurable nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer including tunable splitters and four independent phase modulators has been designed and fabricated. Thanks to the custom architecture, 16-QAM modulation is achieved with simple binary driving signals and successfully detected up to 20Gbaud with BER below the FEC level.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
