Demonstration of low power penalty of silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator in long-haul transmission

We demonstrate error-free 80km transmission by a silicon carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder modulator at 10Gbps and the power penalty is as low as 1.15dB. The devices were evaluated through the bit-error-rate characterizations under the system-level analysis. The silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator was also...

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Published inOptics express Vol. 20; no. 25; pp. 27562 - 27568
Main Authors Yi, Huaxiang, Long, Qifeng, Tan, Wei, Li, Li, Wang, Xingjun, Zhou, Zhiping
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 03.12.2012
Subjects
Electronics - instrumentation
Electronics - methods
Equipment Design
Interferometry - instrumentation
Interferometry - methods
Niobium - chemistry
Optics and Photonics - instrumentation
Optics and Photonics - methods
Oxides - chemistry
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation
Silicon - chemistry
Telecommunications - instrumentation
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Summary:We demonstrate error-free 80km transmission by a silicon carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder modulator at 10Gbps and the power penalty is as low as 1.15dB. The devices were evaluated through the bit-error-rate characterizations under the system-level analysis. The silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator was also analyzed comparatively with a lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator in back-to-back transmission and long-haul transmission, respectively, and verified the negative chirp parameter of the silicon modulator through the experiment. The result of low power penalty indicates a practical application for the silicon modulator in the middle- or long-distance transmission systems.
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ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/oe.20.027562