Silicon microring modulator for 40 Gb/s NRZ-OOK metro networks in O-band.
A microring-based silicon modulator operating at 40 Gb/s near 1310 nm is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. NRZ-OOK signals at 40 Gb/s with 6.2 dB extinction ratio are observed by applying a 4.8 Vpp driving voltage and biasing the modulator at 7 dB insertion loss point. The energy efficiency is 115 fJ/bit. The transmission performance of 40 Gb/s NRZ-OOK through 40 km of standard single mode fiber without dispersion compensation is also investigated. We show that the link suffers negligible dispersion penalty. This makes the modulator a potential candidate for metro network applications.
Zhe
Z
Xuan
Yangjin
Y
Ma
Yang
Y
Liu
Ran
R
Ding
Yunchu
Y
Li
Noam
N
Ophir
Andy Eu-Jin
AE
Lim
Guo-Qiang
GQ
Lo
Peter
P
Magill
Keren
K
Bergman
Tom
T
Baehr-Jones
Michael
M
Hochberg
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