Data Rate Enhancement of Dual Silicon Ring Resonator Carrier-Injection Modulators by PAM-4 Encoding

Seyedi, M. Ashkan ; Chen, Chin-Hui (Janet) ; Fiorentino, Marco ; Beausoleil, Raymond G.

HP Development Company

关键词: Optical Communication;    Optical interconnects;    modulation;    PAM;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2015-41

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

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来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Two rings are thermally tuned to near-resonance and individually modulated by two uncorrelated, NRZ encoded PRBS data sources at 1 Gb/s at different extinction ratios to achieve a 2 GBd/s. Experimental data is shown as a proof-of-concept for this approach.