10 GBd SOH modulator directly driven by an FPGA without electrical amplification

Wolf, S.; Schindler, P. C.; Ronniger, Gregor; Lauermann, Matthias; Palmer, R.; Koeber, S.; Korn, D.; Bogaerts, Wim; Leuthold, Juerg; Freude, W.; Koos, C.

doi:10.1109/ecoc.2014.6963899

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“…In particular, it is possible to directly use the binary outputs of state-of-the-art CMOS circuitry for generating the sub-1 V drive signals required to operate the modulator. We have demonstrated generation of simple OOK signals by connecting an SOH MZM directly to a standard 10 Gbit/s GTX transmitter port of a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA without using an intermediate drive amplifier [50]. More recently, we have extended this concept to advanced modulation formats by demonstrating that 16QAM signals at 13 GBd can be generated without using digital-to-analog converters (DAC) or drive amplifiers [24].…”

Section: Advanced Electro-optic Soh Devices: Modulation At Fj/bit mentioning

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Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

Koos

Leuthold

Freude³

et al. 2016

J. Lightwave Technol.

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Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be efficiently realized on the silicon photonic platform, reducing device footprint by more than an order of magnitude. However, neither silicon nor metals exhibit appreciable second-order optical nonlinearities, thereby making efficient electro-optic modulators challenging to realize. These deficiencies can be overcome by the concepts of silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) and plasmonicorganic hybrid (POH) integration, which combine silicon-oninsulator (SOI) waveguides and plasmonic nanostructures with organic electro-optic cladding materials.

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Section: Advanced Electro-optic Soh Devices: Modulation At Fj/bit mentioning

confidence: 99%

Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

Koos

Leuthold

Freude³

et al. 2016

J. Lightwave Technol.

132

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“…In this paper, we report on proof-of-concept experiments demonstrating that non-resonant and yet highly-efficient silicon-based modulators that can be operated directly with binary sub-Volt output signals of standard field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) without the need for digital-to-analog converters or drive amplifiers [9], [10]. These devices are realized on the silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) platform [11]- [13], which enables generation of a wide variety of modulation formats at lowest energy consumption [14]- [17].…”

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