[WF3] Transmission System and Devices

[WF3-2] DSP-free 52km-long Dispersion Uncompensated Optical Link Employing a 40 Gb/s O-band Silicon Microring Modulator Assembled with a 1V-CMOS Driver

Best Paper Award

〇Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios¹, Stelios Pitris¹, Theoni Alexoudi¹, Hannes Ramon², Xin Yin², Johan Bauwelinck², Yoojin Ban³, Peter De Heyn³, Joris Van Campenhout³, Nikos Pleros¹ (¹Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, ²Ghent Univ. imec, Belgium, ³imec, Belgium)

キーワード：Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems , Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro applications including data-center interconnect

We demonstrate an O band 40Gb/s silicon microring modulator assembled with a 1V driver in a 52km metro transmission experiment without dispersion compensation, achieving a record high bandwidth distance product of 2080Gbkm/s.