Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2013
Session Number:COMM3
Session:
Number:COMM3-5
Recent Developments of Transmitter and Receiver Integrated Circuits for Optical Front-ends
Johan Bauwelinck,
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Publication Date:2013-07-20
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Custom integrated circuit (IC) design enables the realization of new innovative transmitter and receiver sub-systems for low cost and energy efficient optical communication systems and optical interconnections. This talk will present our most recent developments for 10Gb/s passive optical access networks (PON), 100Gb/s metropolitan area networks and datacenter interconnections, funded by the European Commission through FP7 ICT framework, GreenTouch consortia and industrial collaborations. Besides the ever increasing data rates, important drivers for this research are the need to drastically reduce the system power consumption and cost through miniaturization and close integration and co-optimization of the electronics, photonics and their interconnections. Strong collaboration with leading industrial partners on the system level, device level and photonic integration technology is the key for the success of this work. The examples highlighted in this talk are a 10Gb/s linear APD-based burst mode receiver, 10Gb/s bit-interleaving clock-and-data recovery chip, 10x11Gb/s electro-absorption modulator (EAM) driver array, 2x28Gb/s EAM driver array for optical duobinary modulation and 4x28Gb/s receiver electronics. To finalize, three recently started FP7 projects will be briefly introduced as directions for future research.