O-band DAC-less PAM-4 generation with a silicon dual-drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator

4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) is the chosen modulation format for next generation optical short-reach data communications such as intra-datacenter communications. On-chip generation of PAM-4 signals is possible using a single dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). By driving the modulator with two voltage-unbalanced binary signals it is possible to avoid any power hungry electrical digital-to-analog converter (DAC). PAM-4 signal generation at 20 Gbit/s is demonstrated using a silicon dual-drive MZM in the O-band. A bit error rate (BER) of 3.8.10-3 is measured at-6 dBm input power.

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Silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator PAM-4 O-band DAC-less

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Optique [physics.optics]

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hal-02270894 , version 1 (26-08-2019)

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Lucas Deniel, Mathilde Gay, Diego Perez-Galacho, Charles Baudot, Laurent Bramerie, et al.. O-band DAC-less PAM-4 generation with a silicon dual-drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator. 21st European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO 2019), Apr 2019, Gand, Belgium. , ecio-conference.org, Poster session (T.Po2), 2019, 2019 Proceedings. ⟨hal-02270894⟩

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