Monolithically Integrated 40 Gbit/s Tunable Transmitter in an Experimental Generic Foundry Process for Large-Scale Integration

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Yao, Weiming; Smit, Meint K. (COBRA Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Wale, Michael J. (COBRA Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands & Oclaro Technology Ltd., Caswell, Northamptonshire, NN12 8EQ, UK)

Abstract:
We present a tunable transmitter photonic integrated circuit fabricated on an experimental generic III-V foundry platform, consisting of a DBR-laser with 10 nm continuous tuning range, monolithically integrated with a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator capable of 40 Gbit/s operation.