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The first capacitor AC couples the second differential output to the first arm optical phase shifter. The second differential output is DC coupled to a second arm optical phase shifter of the TWE MZM. The first differential output is DC coupled to a first arm optical phase shifter of a TWE MZM.
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The differential driver includes a first differential output and a second differential output that collectively form a differential pair. In an example implementation, a differential TWE MZM driver includes a differential driver, first and second capacitors, and first and second terminations. Modeling of such an integrated TWE MZM may be much easier than TWE MZMs with external components and such an integrated TWE MZM may have a much smaller footprint than TWE MZMs with external components. The PIC may include various components of the TWE MZM, such as one or more waveguides, beam splitters, spot-size converters, combiners, or other photonic components. Some or all of the components of the TWE MZM may be integrated on-chip either on the driver of the TWE MZM or on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) of the TWE MZM. As such, transmission line termination and source termination may not be as critical in the embodiments described herein as compared to TWE MZMs that include lossless or loss-minimized electrodes. Although the lossy nature of the electrodes may degrade electro-optical bandwidth of the TWE MZM, the lossy electrodes may offer increased immunity to transmission line reflections as compared to lossless or loss-minimized electrodes. The TWE MZM may include TWEs that are lossy electrodes.
The bias may be ignored with respect to a transfer function of the TWE MZM when C B=C MZM+C T and R B>R T as described in more detail below. The embodiments described herein may additionally include one or more bias resistors with resistance R B that provides a 0 volt (V) bias to the optical phase shifters.
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Some embodiments described herein provide an AC coupled path from a driver to an electrode of each optical phase shifter in each arm of a TWE MZM, which in combination with a series RC termination may form a circuit topology that provides signal equalization and extends a bandwidth of the TWE MZM.
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Implementations disclosed herein relate to differential TWE MZM drivers for silicon photonics. Rather, this background is only provided to illustrate one example technology area where some implementations described herein may be practiced. The subject matter claimed herein is not limited to implementations that solve any disadvantages or that operate only in environments such as those described above.
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While these data rates can be addressed with mature directly modulated III/V lasers (DML) (VCSEL/MMF and DFB/SMF) and meet current fiber optic link standards and customer requirements, it is not clear today that DML technologies will be able to quickly scale beyond 28 Gbps serial rate. Progress towards achieving generation and detection of optical signals at rates larger than 50 Gbps have also been reported.Įthernet and fibre channel have converged at 25.78 Gbps and 28 Gbps serial rates. Silicon optical devices (modulators, Germanium waveguide photodetectors) at 10/25/28 gigabits per second (Gbps) data rates have been demonstrated and have been introduced commercially. Unless otherwise indicated herein, the materials described herein are not prior art to the claims in the present application and are not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section.
Some implementations discussed herein are related to a differential traveling wave electrode (TWE) mach-zehnder-modulator (MZM) driver for silicon photonics. 23, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference. 23, 2015, which claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. This application is a continuation of U.S.