[WD1] High-Speed Transmitters

[WD1-4] 112 Gb/s PAM-4 Transmission over 1.5 km with an EAM in Generic Integration Platform

〇Marija Trajkovic¹, Kaoutar Benyahya², Christian Simonneau³, Fabrice Blache⁴, Helene Debregeas⁵, Jean-Guy Provost⁴, Kevin A. Williams¹, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens¹ (¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ²NOKIA-Bell Labs, France, ³Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, France, ⁴III-V Lab, joint laboratory between Nokia Bell Labs, Thales Research and Technology, and CEA Leti, France, ⁵ALMAE-Technologies, France)

Keywords:Photonic Integration, Optical Modulators, Transmission and Propagation, Advanced Modulation

We demonstrate a 56 GBaud (112 Gb/s) pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) of an L-band electro-absorption modulator (EAM) fabricated inside a generic photonic integration platform. Successful transmission over 1.5 km using 51-taps equalization is presented.