25-Gb/s transmission over 2.5-km SSMF by silicon MRR enhanced 1.55-μm III-V/SOI DML

• The use of a micro-ring resonator (MRR) to enhance the modulation extinction ratio and dispersion tolerance of a directly modulated laser is experimentally investigated with a bit rate of 25 Gb/s as proposed for the next generation data center communications. The investigated system combines a 11-GHz 1.55-μm directly modulated hybrid III-V/SOI DFB laser realized by bonding III-V materials (InGaAlAs) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer and a silicon MRR also fabricated on SOI. Such a transmitter enables error-free transmission (BER < 10-9) at 25 Gb/s data rate over 2.5-km standard single mode fiber without dispersion compensation nor forward error correction. As both laser and MRR are fabricated on the SOI platform, they could be combined into a single device with enhanced performance, thus providing a cost-effective transmitter for short reach applications.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Optical transmitters

Photonic integrated circuits

Resonators filters

Distributed feedback lasers

Error compensation

Error correction

Hybrid materials

Optical resonators

Resonators

Silicon

Silicon on insulator technology

Single mode fibers

Transmitters

Wafer bonding

Directly modulated lasers

Dispersion tolerance

Error free transmission

Microring Resonator (MRR)

Next generation data centers

Silicon on insulator wafers

Standard single mode fibers

Silicon wafers

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)