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17 March 2023 800Gbps data center interconnection employing silicon photonics
Jian Wang, Wen-Jr Jiang, Mustafa Al-Qadi, Kangmei Li, Xu Liu, Weidong Tang, Gary Fang, Jason Ackert, Chengkun Chen, Yan Yang Zhao, Konstantin Kuzmin, Calvin Ho, Brian R. West, David Dougherty, Weilin Liu, Hiroaki Yamada, Ping Wang, Yifeng Zhou, Kevin Schmidt, Jocelyn Nee, Kenneth A. McGreer, Marcel Boudreau, Jibin Sun, Winston Way, Hui Xu
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Abstract
For the first time, we have experimentally demonstrated an all-silicon polarization-multiplexed IQ modulator targeting 800ZR pluggable transceivers for data-center interconnection. Using realistic DAC, ADC, DSP, and commercially available driver amplifiers, we can achieve an equivalent transmitter output power of -15.74 dBm and an rOSNR of 26.51 dB with oFEC. Furthermore, a superior performance showing a transmitter output power of -13.55 dBm and an rOSNR of 26.6 dB can be achieved by using a future co-packaged driver chip with peaking capability, which is experimentally emulated by an optical spectral shaper. In addition, an optical sub-assembly consisting of co-packaged a SiPho chip and a TIA chip is under sample building and testing. The demonstration paves a way for near-term available 800ZR pluggable transceivers based on silicon photonics.
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Jian Wang, Wen-Jr Jiang, Mustafa Al-Qadi, Kangmei Li, Xu Liu, Weidong Tang, Gary Fang, Jason Ackert, Chengkun Chen, Yan Yang Zhao, Konstantin Kuzmin, Calvin Ho, Brian R. West, David Dougherty, Weilin Liu, Hiroaki Yamada, Ping Wang, Yifeng Zhou, Kevin Schmidt, Jocelyn Nee, Kenneth A. McGreer, Marcel Boudreau, Jibin Sun, Winston Way, and Hui Xu "800Gbps data center interconnection employing silicon photonics", Proc. SPIE 12429, Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems XII, 1242905 (17 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647603
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KEYWORDS
Silicon photonics

Data centers

Digital signal processing

Modulators

Signal to noise ratio

Transmitters

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