Extended C-Band Tunable Multi-Channel InP-Based Coherent Transmitter PICs

• DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2017.2670547
• Publication Date: 2017-02-17T19:52:10Z
• Authors: Vikrant Lal; Joseph Summers; Naksup Kim; Scott W. Corzine; Peter Evans; Matthias Lauermann; An Nguyen; Amir Hosseini; Mingzhi Lu; Jeffrey T. Rahn; Mohammad Reza Chi...; Jiaming Zhang; John Osenbach; Thomas Vallaitis; Parmijit Samra; Charles Park; Matthias Kuntz; Jie Tang; Corey Tsai; Han Sun; Rene Schmogrow; Don Pavinski; Babak Behnia; Pierre Mertz; Tim Butrie; Kuang-Tsan Wu; Matthew Mitchell; Mehrdad Ziari; Mike Reffle; David Welch; Fred Kish
• Keywords: Modulation (music); Polarization-division multiplexing; Channel spacing; Integrated Optics

We demonstrate a fully integrated multi-channel InP-based coherent transmitter photonic circuits (PICs) with extended C-band tunability, operating at 33 and 44 Gbaud per channel under 16-QAM dual-polarization modulation. PICs are demonstrated integrating up to 14-channels enabling multi-Tb/s total PIC capacities.