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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Zibo Zheng, Abdolkhalegh Mohammadi, Omid Jafari, Hassan Sepehrian, Xiaoguang Zhang, Wei Shi, Leslie A. Rusch
Summary: Segmenting a silicon modulator can increase its electro-optic bandwidth, optimizing system trade-offs in coherent detection. The segmented silicon IQ modulator achieves an electro-optic bandwidth of over 60 GHz and enables high-speed optical transmission and complex optical signal generation.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Zhihai Liu, Xiang Li, Siying Cheng, Yaru Li, Wei Jin, Yu Zhang, Yifan Qin, Yaxun Zhang, Shanshan Li, Andriy Lotnyk, Libo Yuan
Summary: The control of information is essential in the information age, and the optical modulator plays a crucial role in optical networks. All-optical modulation methods have advantages over electro-optic modulators, but require continuous power supply for processing and retaining data, resulting in increased energy consumption. We propose an integrated Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) optical modulator for in-fiber operation, achieving modulation of output light intensity. The device demonstrates high interference intensity contrast in telecommunications bands and fast response time to pump pulses. It also operates as a scalar multiplication unit and a logic operation unit.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yoshihiro Ogiso, Masanori Nakamura, Teruo Jyo, Munehiko Nagatani, Josuke Ozaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Toshikazu Hashimoto, Yutaka Miyamoto
Summary: We demonstrate a new optical-domain bandwidth extension technology using a simple optical configuration. By using an integrated optical phase-interleaving in-phase-and-quadrature modulator (PI-IQM) with a digital spectral weaver (DSW), we can synthesize optical signals with twice the analog bandwidth of digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The PI-IQM was fabricated using an InP n-p-i-n platform and tested with driving signals generated by the DSW and DACs, achieving net data rates of 1.68 Tbps at back to back and 1.64 Tbps after 80-km transmission.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Zuliang Ruan, Li Pei, Ji Wang, Jingjing Zheng, Jianshuai Wang, Jing Li, Tigang Ning, Qi Zhao, Yuheng Xie
Summary: An all-optical graphene oxide modulator based on phase-shifted FBG is proposed and experimentally proved to overcome the electronic bottleneck, achieving a high extinction ratio and broadband response.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Minwei Li, Yang Yu, Yang Lu, Xiaoyang Hu, Yaorong Wang, Shangpeng Qin, Junyang Lu, Junbo Yang, Zhenrong Zhang
Summary: An optical microfiber all-optical phase modulator (OMAOPM) based on the photo-induced thermal phase shift effect was proposed to meet the needs of phase generated carrier (PGC) demodulation technology for interferometric fiber optic hydrophones. The modulator was optimized to achieve a modulation amplitude of 1 rad, meeting the requirements of sensing applications. Experimental results demonstrated that the system successfully demodulated underwater acoustic signals below 1 kHz.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yanyi Wang, Wen Zhou, Junjie Ding, Yuxuan Tan, Bohan Sang, Cuiwei Liu, Feng Zhao, Jianjun Yu
Summary: This study proposes a method for generating QAM vector mm-wave signals using optical orthogonal polarization single sideband modulation in 5G, with successful demonstration of signal generation and transmission. The system design utilized can significantly reduce inter-band crosstalk and inter-polarization signal-signal beat interference.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yohei Sobu, Guoxiu Huang, Shinsuke Tanaka, Yu Tanaka, Yuichi Akiyama, Takeshi Hoshida
Summary: A study on an all-Si segmented Mach-Zehnder modulator for optical DAC transmitters was conducted, achieving successful generation of 90-Gbaud NRZ signals and 70-Gbaud PAM4 waveforms. The compact device size, excellent bit error rates, and wide bandwidth make it a promising solution for next-generation high-speed multilevel transmitters.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Optics
Kousik Mukherjee
Summary: In this study, all-optical frequency-encoded logic gates XOR and XNOR were designed and simulated for the first time at 1 Tb/s using quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QDSOA). The simulation included analysis of gain and phase dynamics of the QDSOA, investigation of output bit patterns using MATLAB, and calculation of key performance metrics such as Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Quality factor. The research also examined the impact of QDSOA length on quality factor and proposed modified definitions of AM and Quality Factor to apply in the context of frequency-encoded logic.
OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Essam Berikaa, Md Samiul Alam, Alireza Samani, Eslam El-Fiky, Yixiang Hu, Stephane Lessard, David V. Plant
Summary: In order to handle the increasingly large amount of data traffic, there is a continuous demand to expand the capacity of optical communication networks. Despite its limitations in electro-optic bandwidth and driving voltage requirements, silicon photonics (SiP) has significant potential as a platform for optical transceivers due to its compatibility with CMOS technology. This study presents the design and characterization of two single-segment C-band SiP in-phase quadrature modulators (IQM), and analyzes the tradeoffs in their transmission performance. The experiments demonstrate that the long IQM supports higher data transmission rates, reaching up to 413 Gbps over 80 km of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) with all-electronic equalization and on a single polarization. By utilizing dual-polarization emulation and lookup table-based non-linear pre-distortion (NLPD), transmission rates of 827 Gbps and 800 Gbps are achieved for DP-32QAM and DP-16QAM, respectively, over 80 km of SSMF. Furthermore, a net transmission rate of 1 Tbps is achieved for DP-64QAM below the 25% overhead soft-decision (SD) FEC BER threshold of 5 x 10(-2), demonstrating the potential of SiP for next-generation 800G applications.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hiromu Sato, Jiawei Mao, Alisa Bannaron, Takuro Kamiya, Guo-Wei Lu, Shiyoshi Yokoyama
Summary: The study demonstrated successful 100-Gbaud OOK transmission with an improved EO polymer modulator, showing resilience to high temperatures. Error-free signal transmissions over a distance of 2.0 km were achieved with a driving voltage of 1.9 V-pp.
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Shang Hong, Shawn S. H. Hsu
Summary: This paper presents an inductorless modulator driver with effective overshoot suppression and a large swing for high-speed optical communications. A novel interleave frequency variant feedback (IFVF) technique is proposed, which utilizes active feedback loops with the RC degeneration. The driver achieves a maximum 3.4 V-pp differential output voltage swing using a 90-nm CMOS technology.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
(2023)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Mohammed Alaloul, Jacob B. Khurgin
Summary: This article presents a practical design of an all-optical modulator based on graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) heterostructures. The interaction between graphene and guided light is enhanced by nanophotonic means, achieving high extinction ratio, low insertion loss, and energy-efficient switching. The device exhibits ultrafast switching with short recovery time and has the potential to be a high-performance all-optical modulator with ultra-high bandwidth. It is expected to meet the needs of next-generation photonic computing systems.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2022)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Shimpei Shimizu, Takayuki Kobayashi, Takushi Kazama, Takeshi Umeki, Masanori Nakamura, Koji Enbutsu, Ryoichi Kasahara, Yutaka Miyamoto
Summary: This paper presents a method using CD pre-equalization based on PPLN-based PSA to achieve 2-THz WDM single-span transmission. The CD is accurately estimated by estimating the gain characteristic of the PSA and compensated through a CD controller. Experimental results show that this method enables high-symbol-rate and wideband WDM signal transmission.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Guoqiang Li, Zhongya Li, Yinaer Ha, Fangchen Hu, Junwen Zhang, Nan Chi
Summary: This study evaluates the performance of joint linear and nonlinear pre-equalizers based on the Volterra series, memory polynomials, and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in PON systems. Results show that ANN pre-equalization performs well in power budget improvement for 25-GBaud PAM4 and PAM8 signals, and outperforms post-equalizers even in low SNR.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Qiankun Li, Xiongwei Yang, Jiali Yang
Summary: An all-optical aggregation and de-aggregation scheme is proposed for converting between one 8QAM signal and three BPSK signals using nonlinear effects in HNLF. The scheme utilizes SPM, XPM, FWM, and PA effects to decompose and recombine the signals, enabling connection between networks using different types of signals. The performance of the scheme is evaluated by calculating EVM and BER values before and after signal conversion.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)