A monolithic 56 Gb/s CMOS integrated nanophotonic PAM-4 transmitter

Chi Xiong; Douglas M. Gill; Jonathan E. Proesel; Jason S. Orcutt; Wilfried Haensch; William M. J. Green

doi:10.1109/OIC.2015.7115665

OI 2015

Conference paper

29 May 2015

A monolithic 56 Gb/s CMOS integrated nanophotonic PAM-4 transmitter

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Abstract

We report a demonstration of four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) using a segmented traveling-wave silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with monolithically integrated CMOS drivers. The PAM-4 transmitter shows clear eye openings up to 28 Gbaud.

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