Plasmonic Ring Resonator Modulator Demonstrating IM/DD >400G per lane
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Blatter, Tobias; Kulmer, Laurenz; Xu, Chenrui; Destraz, Marcel; Yannik, Horst; Baeuerle, Benedikt; Leuthold, Juerg
Abstract:
We demonstrate plasmonic ring resonator modulators operating at 480Gbit/s with AIR of 461Gbit/s in an IM/DD experiment. The modulator features low insertion loss of 1.2 dB, a flat bandwidth in excess of 110 GHz, and represents the first ring modulator with net rates of >400Gbit/s.