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Surface-normal electroabsorption modulators (SNEAMs) are devices with unique characteristics, such as small size, wide bandwidth and polarization insensitive behavior; however, due to the surface-normal configuration and since they operate in reflection, it is challenging to package fiber arrays to SNEAM arrays with many channels. Here, we present a novel approach to package fiber arrays to SNEAM ...Show More
The relentless traffic growth of passive optical networks (PONs) requires high-performance optical transceivers capable of operating over legacy installed fiber links designed for much lower data rates. New methods of increasing launched optical power and received optical sensitivity are required while reducing the cost of these transceivers. We present a compact silicon optical bench 10Gb/s XGS-P...Show More
In this paper and for the first time, nonlinear behaviour of an electronically tuneable electrochromic (EC) thin film material is investigated experimentally at microwave frequencies. The measurement setup based on the single tone method uses identical topologies for test cells based on SiO2 or Silicone Dioxide (SD) and EC dielectric materials for a mutual comparison study of the nonlinear behavio...Show More
Short-reach communication systems use electro-optic transmission engines based on low-voltage, wide bandwidth modulators to achieve high capacity and low power operation. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, integration of a 4-channel array of surface-normal electroabsorption modulators (SNEAMs) with a 4-channel array of electronic drivers with low output voltage (~1.25-1.45 Vpp). We use this...Show More
Comb sources and multi-wavelength lasers can be used as central sources of light in many communication systems using high channel count wavelength division multiplexing. Here, we demonstrate a 16 wavelengths comb source built through large scale hybrid integration of 16 active gain chips with a passive silica chip that incorporates a 16 channel arrayed waveguide grating. Optical coupling between t...Show More
In this paper, the feasibility of exploiting the dielectric tunability of a novel tuneable material, namely Electro Chromic (EC) material, to construct a reflectarray unit cell is demonstrated for the first time. In this regard, the design of an EC-based reflectarray unit cell which provides electronic control of the reflection phase at millimeter wave frequencies is presented. The unit cell is an...Show More
We demonstrate a WDM passive optical network that uses high-speed, polarization-independent surface normal modulators as upstream 25-Gb/s transmitters. A band of CW wavelengths, sourced at the optical line terminal, establishes the upstream channels. System performance in our single-fiber architecture is limited by Rayleigh backscattering, but is below the FEC threshold.Show More
We demonstrate a 16 wavelengths comb source using hybrid integration of 16 gain chips, 32 balls lenses and an arrayed waveguide grating, with total output power >20 mW, SMSR 56 dB, and kHz-scale linewidths. © 2022 The Author(s)Show More
Short reach communication systems, such as datacenters and access networks, exhibit steep capacity growth and require opto-electronic technologies with small size, low complexity, and low power consumption. Here, we demonstrate large-scale arrays of reflective surface normal electroabsorption modulators (SNEAMs). With very small active volumes, SNEAMs enable ultra-wide electro-optic bandwidth (>>6...Show More
Fast and simple optical filtering is a prerequisite for low-cost passive optical networking using multiple wavelengths to scale to higher capacity. We demonstrate a simple electro-magnetically tuned optical filter capable of tuning across more than 700 GHz of optical spectrum in under 1 ms with low optical loss. We show successful transmission of 10.3-Gb/s modulated signals through the filter with...Show More
A photonic integration platform is presented that allows easy manipulation and alignment of a ball lens doublet for efficient coupling between different optical components. The alignment and fixing of the lenses are automated, accurate, and highly scalable for compact parallel optical assemblies. To demonstrate this approach, we built a 4 × 25-Gb/s compact wavelength-division multiplexed transmitt...Show More
We present a 35nm tunable laser by hybrid integration between a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier and an external cavity based on silica ring resonators and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. We demonstrate a record low 2kHz line width.Show More
A compact 16×25 Gbit/s multi-wavelength receiver for multi-kilometer reach applications is built on a simple, low cost and scalable hybrid integration scheme on a silica-on-silicon platform. Insertion loss <2 dB and sensitivity <-10 dBm are demonstrated for the complete receiver.Show More
We demonstrate orbital angular momentum state conversion using two 3D photonic integrated circuits for free-space communication of 20-Gb/s QPSK signals. Different combinations of OAM states show error-free performance with 379,960 bits tested.Show More
We demonstrate a low-loss hybrid-integrated device based on a silica planar lightwave circuit (PLC) coupled to a 3-D photonic circuit that efficiently generates and multiplexes 15 optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in free space.Show More
We present a reconfigurable optical discriminator filter for frequency modulated microwave-photonics link applications. The filter is based on a simplified ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer configuration. It enables conversion of a highly linear frequency to amplitude modulation. Operations in a fixed bandwidth (BW) of 30 GHz and a tunable bandwidth from 10 to 30 GHz are achieved using thi...Show More