Multi-100 GbE and 400 GbE Interfaces for Intra-Data Center Networks Based on Arrayed Transceivers With Serial 100 Gb/s Operation

• DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2014.2363107
• Publication Date: 2014-10-15T14:47:28Z
• Authors: Panos Groumas; Vasilis Katopodis; Jung Han Choi; Heinz-Gunter Bach; Jean-Yves Dupuy; Agnieszka Konczyk...; Ziyang Zhang; Parisa Harati; Eric Miller; Antonio Beretta; Lefteris Gounaridis; Filipe Jorge; Virginie Nodjiadjim; Alberto Dede; Antonello Vannucci; Giulio Cangini; Raluca Dinu; Norbert Keil; Norbert Grote; Hercules Avramopo...; Christos Kouloume...
• Keywords: Transceiver; Photodiode

We demonstrate a 2 × 100 Gb/s transmitter and 4 receiver as the key components for multi-100-GbE 400-GbE optical interfaces in future intradata center networks. Compared to other approaches, two devices can provide significant advantages terms of number components, simplicity, footprint, cost, they are capable serial operation with nonreturn-to-zero on-off keying format directly at Gb/s. The is based on monolithic integration multimode interference coupler Mach-Zehnder modulators an electro-optic polymer chip, hybrid this chip InP laser diode multiplexing driving circuits. hand quad array photodiodes demultiplexing Combining devices, we evaluate their transmission performance over standard single-mode fibers without dispersion compensation achieve BER 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-10</sup> after 1000 m below xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-8</sup> 1625 80 Gb/s, well xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-7</sup> Future plans including development tunable GbE circuit-switched domains inside data networks also discussed.