Demonstration of a Partially Integrated Silicon Photonics ONU in a Self-Coherent Reflective FDMA PON

  • Stefano Straullu
  • , Paolo Savio
  • , Giuseppe Franco
  • , Roberto Gaudino
  • , Valter Ferrero
  • , Stephane Bernabé
  • , Maryse Fournier
  • , Viviane Muffato
  • , Sylvie Menezo
  • , Benoit Charbonnier
  • , Enrico Temporiti
  • , Daniele Baldi
  • , Gabriele Minoia
  • , Matteo Repossi
  • , Lee Carroll
  • , Jun Lee
  • , Peter O'Brien
  • , Riccardo Marchetti
  • , Guang Hua Duan
  • , Fabienne Saliou
  • Silvio Abrate

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Abstract

We report about the final results of the FABULOUS European project, demonstrating the feasibility of real-time Ethernet transmission on a self-coherent reflective passive optical network, using an optical network unit (ONU) whose main optical functions are performed by a silicon-photonics device; 500 Mbps per user with a power budget of 24 dB in offline processing and 21 dB in real time is shown. We also report details about the packaging process and the special technique developed for the flipchipping of a CMOS electrical driver, used for driving the ONU with low voltage, onto a silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7803585
Pages (from-to)1307-1312
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume35
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2017

Keywords

  • Passive optical network
  • Reflective modulation
  • Self-coherent detection

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