Up to 168-Gb/s PAM-4 direct detection transmission with silicon travelling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator

2018/12/24 by Fan Yang, Yang, Fan, Yixiao Zhu +9
Engineering · #Photonic and Optical Devices #Optical Network Technologies #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.11081

Abstract

Based on a silicon travelling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator, we demonstrate record 168Gb/s (84Gbaud) and 160Gb/s (80Gbaud) PAM-4 direct detection transmission over 1km and 2km SSMF, respectively, with bit error rates below 20% HD-FEC threshold.

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