Large-scale photonic integrated circuits for long-haul transmission and switching

• DOI: 10.1364/jon.6.000102
• Publication Date: 2007-02-21T19:21:25Z
• Authors: Radhakrishnan Nag...; Masaki Kato; Jacco Pleumeekers; Peter Evans; Damien Lambert; Arnold Chen; Vince Dominic; Atul Mathur; Prashant Chavarkar; Mark Missey; Andrew Dentai; Sheila Hurtt; Johan Bäck; Ranjani Muthiah; Sanjeev Murthy; Randal Salvatore; Charles Joyner; Jon Rossi; Richard Schneider; Mehrdad Ziari; Huan-Shang Tsai; Jeffrey Bostak; Michael Kauffman; Stephen Pennypacker; Timothy Butrie; Michael Reffle; Dave Mehuys; Matthew Mitchell; Alan Nilsson; Stephen Grubb; Fred Kish; David Welch
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy

Feature Issue on Nanoscale Integrated Photonics for Optical Networks Dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) large-scale, single-chip transmitter and receiver photonic integrated circuits (PICs), each capable of operating at 100 Gbits/s, have been deployed in the field since the end of 2004. These highly integrated InP chips have significantly changed the economics of long-haul optical transport networks. First, a review of the ten-channel, 100 Gbits/s PIC is presented. Then two extensions of the technology are demonstrated; first is wide temperature, coolerless operation of the 100 Gbits/s PIC, and second is a single integrated chip with 40 channels operating at 40 Gbits/s, capable of an aggregate data rate of 1.6 Tbits/s.