Author:
Talkhooncheh Arian Hashemi,Zilkie Aaron,Yu Guomin,Shafiiha Roshanak,Emami Azita
Abstract
A DAC-less 200Gb/s QAM-16 transmitter in a multi-micron silicon-photonics platform using 4 binary-driven SiGe EAMs in an unbalanced MZI is presented. The transmitter exhibits bit-error rates of 3×10-4 and 2.8×10-4 for square and hexagonal constellations.