A Packaged Silicon Photonic Circuit Integrating a Hybrid Tunable Laser, a Modulator and an Amplifier

A Silicon Photonic hybrid Transmitter Integrated Circuit containing a tunable laser, an electro-absorption-switched modulator and a semiconductor optical amplifier is designed, fabricated, tested and packaged for both NRZ and BPSK operations. Error-free transmission up to 50km is validated for the NRZ format at 11Gbit/s.