The effect of phase noise introduced by optical sources in spectrally-sliced optically enabled DACs and ADCs is modeled and analyzed in detail. In both data converter architectures, a mode-locked laser is assumed to provide an optical comb whose lines are used to either synthesize or analyze individual spectral slices. While the optical phase noise of the central MLL line as well as of other optical carriers used in the analyzed system architectures have a minor impact on the system performance, the RF phase noise of the MLL fundamentally limits it. In particular, the corresponding jitter of the MLL pulse train is transferred almost one-to-one to the system-level timing jitter of the data converters. While MLL phase noise can in principle be tracked and removed by electronic signal processing, this results in electric oscillator phase noise replacing the MLL jitter and is not conducive in systems leveraging the ultra-low jitter of low-noise mode-locked lasers. Precise analytical models are derived and validated by detailed numerical simulations.

In this paper, we present a monolithically integrated coherent receiver with on-chip grating couplers, 90°hybrid, photodiodes and transimpedance amplifiers. A transimpedance gain of 7.7 kΩ was achieved by the amplifiers. An opto-electrical 3 dB bandwidth of 34 GHz for in-phase and quadrature channel was measured. A real-time data transmission of 64 GBd-QPSK (128 Gb/s) for a single polarization was performed. Index Terms-Silicon photonics, electronic photonic integrated circuit, single chip coherent receiver, optical communications.

We demonstrate optical arbitrary waveform measurement (OAWM) using a silicon pho-tonic spectral slicer. Exploiting maximal-ratio combining (MRC), we demonstrate the viability of the scheme by reconstructing 100-GBd 64QAM signals with high quality.

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Combining photonic integrated circuits (PIC) with millimeter-wave electronics opens novel perspectives in generation and detection of ultra-broadband signals with disruptive potential for a wide variety of applications. Here, we will give an overview on our recent progress in the field of ultra-broadband photonicelectronic signal processing, covering device concepts such as silicon plasmonic integration, signal processing concepts such as Kramers-Kronig-based phase reconstruction of THz signals, as well as application demonstrations in the field of high-speed wireless data transmission.