Integrated Hybrid Wavelength-Tunable III-V/Silicon Transmitter Based on a Ring-Assisted Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Modulator

Guilhem de Valicourt, Chia-Ming Chang, Jeffrey Lee, Michael S. Eggleston, Chen Zhu, Jeffrey H. Sinsky, Kwangwoong Kim, Po Dong, Anaelle Maho, Romain Brenot, Young-Kai Chen

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Abstract

We demonstrate a wavelength-tunable hybrid III-V/Si transmitter based on a Vernier laser with more than 30 nm tuning range and two microring modulators nested in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This transmitter circuit has versatile operating modes. It can be used for ON-OFF keying (OOK) generation based on low drive voltage push-pull ring modulators and for quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) generation where binary phase-shift keying signal is generated by each ring. We reported the first hybrid III-V/Si integrated wavelength-tunable transmitter based on high-speed ring modulators (BW ∼23 GHz), which can cover more than 30 nm. OOK signal generation with better signal integrity, lower drive voltage, and lower chirp is demonstrated as well as 80 Gbit/s polarization-division multiplexing QPSK signal transmission over 100 km with the integrated hybrid transmitter and a fully packaged silicon-based coherent receiver.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8241350
Pages (from-to)204-209
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Hybrid integration
  • photonic integrated circuits
  • semiconductor optical amplifiers
  • silicon-on-insulator

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