204-GBaud On-Off Keying Transmitter for Inter-Data Center Communications

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2018.th4a.4
• Publication Date: 2018-03-13T15:55:53Z
• Authors: Haik Mardoyan; Filipe Jorge; Oskars Ozolins; Jose Manuel Estaran; Aleksejs Udalcovs; Agnieszka Konczyk...; Muriel Riet; Bernadette Duval; Virginie Nodjiadjim; Jean-Yves Dupuy; Xiaodan Pang; Urban Westergren; Jiajia Chen; Sergei Popov; Sébastien Bigo
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We demonstrate an on-off keyed transmitter with direct detection, at record symbol rates of 204Gbaud and 140Gbaud, over 10km and 80km, respectively, powered by a high-speed InP-based 2:1 selector and travelling-wave electro-absorption laser-modulator.