DAC-free ultra-low-power dual-polarization 64-QAM transmission with InP IQ segmented MZM module

Alessandro Aimone,I. Garcia Lopez,Saleem Alreesh,Pedro Rito,Tino Brast,Volker Höhns,Gerrit Fiol,Marko Gruner,Johannes Karl Fischer,J. Honecker,Andreas G. Steffan,Dietmar Kissinger,Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy,M. Schell

DAC-free ultra-low-power dual-polarization 64-QAM transmission with InP IQ segmented MZM module

2016

Alessandro Aimone
I. Garcia Lopez
Saleem Alreesh
Pedro Rito
Tino Brast
Volker Höhns
Gerrit Fiol
Marko Gruner
Johannes Karl Fischer
J. Honecker
Andreas G. Steffan
Dietmar Kissinger
Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy
M. Schell

We demonstrate for the first time 32 GBd 64-QAM signal generation without the usage of DACs. The dual-polarization 64-QAM signal is transmitted error-free over 80 km of SSMF with 7.8 pJ/bit record low energy consumption.

Keywords:

Pulse-amplitude modulation
Photonic integrated circuit
Quadrature amplitude modulation
Optical modulation amplitude
Analog transmission
Intensity modulation
Telecommunications
Quadrature modulation
Electronic engineering
Modulation
Engineering
Optics
optical polarization

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