Generation of 100 GHz Periodic Nyquist Pulses using Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Modulators in Silicon Electronic-Photonic Platform

Abstract

A frequency-flexible Nyquist pulse synthesizer is presented with optical pulse bandwidths up to fopt = 100 GHz and repetition rates equal to fopt/9, fabricated in an electronic-photonic co-integrated platform utilizing linear on-chip drivers.