TY - JOUR
T1 - A 100 Gbaud On-off-Keying Silicon-Polymer Hybrid Modulator Operating at up to 110°C
AU - Sato, Hiromu
AU - Mao, Jiawei
AU - Bannaron, Alisa
AU - Kamiya, Takuro
AU - Lu, Guo Wei
AU - Yokoyama, Shiyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), under Grant JP19H00770; in part by the Strategic International Collaborative Research Program under Grant 18000585; in part by the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology under Grant 16815359; in part by the Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-Driven Research and Development, Japan Science and Technology Agency, under Grant JPMJTR191D; in part by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Beyond 5G under Grant 02101;
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PY - 2021/12/15
Y1 - 2021/12/15
N2 - We demonstrate 100-Gbaud on-off-keying (OOK) transmission driven at a low voltage using an electro-optic (EO) polymer modulator combined with a silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide. Various types of organic-and polymer-based modulators have been reported to perform efficient EO modulation and high-speed data transmission at over 100 Gbaud. However, there are critical concerns regarding the practical application of polymer devices in terms of environmental stability. In particular, long-term thermal storage and stability during operation require improvements before EO polymer modulators can be applied in practical systems. We have developed an EO polymer with enhanced thermophysical stability and used it to fabricate an efficient EO polymer modulator. In this study we extend our earlier work on high-speed EO polymer modulators by performing fiber-link 100-Gbaud OOK transmission at various operating temperatures. A thermal stability test revealed that the EO polymer modulator can survive higherature exposure up to 110°C. Error-free signal transmissions over a distance of 2.0 km was successfully demonstrated with a driving voltage of 1.9 Vpp and a bit error rate below the 7% overhead forward error correction threshold. The driving voltage, bandwidth, bit error rate, and fiber-link performance of the device are presented.
AB - We demonstrate 100-Gbaud on-off-keying (OOK) transmission driven at a low voltage using an electro-optic (EO) polymer modulator combined with a silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide. Various types of organic-and polymer-based modulators have been reported to perform efficient EO modulation and high-speed data transmission at over 100 Gbaud. However, there are critical concerns regarding the practical application of polymer devices in terms of environmental stability. In particular, long-term thermal storage and stability during operation require improvements before EO polymer modulators can be applied in practical systems. We have developed an EO polymer with enhanced thermophysical stability and used it to fabricate an efficient EO polymer modulator. In this study we extend our earlier work on high-speed EO polymer modulators by performing fiber-link 100-Gbaud OOK transmission at various operating temperatures. A thermal stability test revealed that the EO polymer modulator can survive higherature exposure up to 110°C. Error-free signal transmissions over a distance of 2.0 km was successfully demonstrated with a driving voltage of 1.9 Vpp and a bit error rate below the 7% overhead forward error correction threshold. The driving voltage, bandwidth, bit error rate, and fiber-link performance of the device are presented.
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2021.3126945
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2021.3126945
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121750234
VL - 33
SP - 1507
EP - 1510
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
SN - 1041-1135
IS - 24
ER -