Publicaties

This paper discusses our progress on high-speed optical transmitters for next generation intra-datacenter interconnects. Silicon integrated photonic systems have a key role to play in this evolution by allowing compact, fast, innovative and cost-effective devices to be manufactured in large volumes. Especially silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators are a very attractive candidate: they are easy to manufacture, easy to use and support both intensity as ...

Next-generation mobile networks will use mmWave frequencies as part of their strategy to meet the ever increasing wireless data rate demands. To mitigate the challenging propagation characteristics at these high frequencies, beamforming will be key. In this paper, we discuss a true time delay optical beamforming network (OBFN) based on switchable optical delay lines for a4×1 antenna array. This OBFN is implemented on a Si-Photonics platform and ...

Migrating toward higher frequencies and densification of the communication cells are two key enablers for increased wireless data rates. To make these trends economically viable, centralized architectures based on radio-over-fiber (RoF) are explored. This article describes the design of a photoreceiver that can be applied at the remote radio head in a 28 GHz analog RoF link. The devised photoreceiver comprises a Ge-on-Si photodetector and ...

We demonstrate a 28 GHz radio-over-fiber system with laser-less, low-cost active antenna units using silicon photonics and a GaAs driver and LNA. 7-Gb/s downlink and uplink throughput was achieved over 2km SSMF and 5m wireless.

The micro-transfer-printing of prefabricated C-band semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) on a silicon waveguide circuit is reported. The SOAs are 1.35 mm in length and 40 mu m in width. Dense arrays of III-V SOAs are fabricated on the source InP wafer. These can then be micro-transfer-printed on the target SOI photonic circuits in a massively parallel fashion. Additionally, this approach allows for greater flexibility in terms of integrating ...

We demonstrate an optical transmitter consisting of a limiting SiGe BiCMOS driver co-designed and co-packaged with a silicon photonic segmented traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). The MZM is split into two traveling-wave segments to increase the bandwidth and to allow a 2-bit DAC functionality. Two limiting driver channels are used to drive these segments, allowing both NRZ and PAM4 signal generation in the optical domain. The voltage ...

We demonstrate waveguide-detector coupling through the integration of GaAs p-i-n photodiodes (PDs) on top of silicon nitride grating couplers (GCs) by means of transfer-printing. Both single device and arrayed printing is demonstrated. The photodiodes exhibit dark currents below 20 pA and waveguide-referred responsivities of up to 0.30 A/W at 2V reverse bias, corresponding to an external quantum efficiency of 47% at 860 nm. We have integrated ...