Net 300 Gb/s Unamplified Transmission using a Differential Drive SiP TW-MZM

2025 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics 2025): Conference Proceedings 2025
Armands Ostrovskis, Darja Čirjuļina, Toms Salgals, Micheal Koenigsmann, Benjamin Kruger, Fabio Pittala, Lu Zhang, Xianbin Yu, Richard Schatz, Markus Gruen, Hadrien Louchet, Robert Jahn, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Oskars Ozoliņš

We demonstrate record unamplified transmissions of 256 Gbaud OOK, 155 Gbaud PAM4 and 128 Gbaud PAM6 using a C-band differential-drive SiP TW-MZM, achieving BER performance below the 6.25 % HD-FEC threshold after 100 m SMF transmission.

Keywords
Silicon Photonics , Mach-Zehnder modulator , optical amplification free
DOI
10.1109/SiPhotonics64386.2025.10985216
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10985216

Ostrovskis, A., Čirjuļina, D., Salgals, T., Koenigsmann, M., Kruger, B., Pittala, F., Zhang, L., Yu, X., Schatz, R., Gruen, M., Louchet, H., Jahn, R., Yamaguchi, K., Bobrovs, V., Ozoliņš, O. Net 300 Gb/s Unamplified Transmission using a Differential Drive SiP TW-MZM. In: 2025 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics 2025): Conference Proceedings, United Kingdom, London, 14-17 April, 2025. Piscataway: IEEE, 2025, pp.1-2. ISBN 979-8-3315-0619-3. e-ISBN 979-8-3315-0618-6. ISSN 1949-2081. e-ISSN 1949-209X. Available from: doi:10.1109/SiPhotonics64386.2025.10985216

Publication language
English (en)