Low-crosstalk and fabrication-tolerant four-channel CWDM filter based on dispersion-engineered Mach-Zehnder interferometers

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The O-band coarse wavelength-division (de) multiplexing (CWDM) has been extensively
used in data-center optical communications, whereas it's still challenging to reduce crosstalk …

Fabrication-tolerant CWDM (de) multiplexer based on cascaded Mach–Zehnder interferometers on silicon-on-insulator

TH Yen, YJ Hung - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based coarse wavelength
division multiplexing (CWDM)(de) multiplexer on silicon-on-insulator with its spectral …

Sub-GHz-resolution C-band Nyquist-filtering interleaver on a high-index-contrast photonic integrated circuit

L Zhuang, C Zhu, B Corcoran, M Burla… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Modern optical communications rely on high-resolution, high-bandwidth filtering to maximize
the data-carrying capacity of fiber-optic networks. Such filtering typically requires high …

DSP-free 'coherent-lite'transceiver for next generation single wavelength optical intra-datacenter interconnects

M Morsy-Osman, M Sowailem, E El-Fiky, T Goodwill… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose a DSP-free coherent-lite system that requires neither high-speed DSP nor high-
resolution signal converters for deployment inside datacenters over single mode fiber links …

Flat-top CWDM (de) multiplexer based on MZI with bent directional couplers

H Xu, Y Shi - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-crosstalk and flat-top 4-channel coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (de)
multiplexer is proposed and demonstrated. The cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers …

Highly efficient channel-drop filter with a coupled cavity-based wavelength-selective reflection feedback

K Fasihi, S Mohammadnejad - Optics Express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We have proposed a three-port high efficient channel-drop filter (CDF) with a coupled cavity-
based wavelength-selective reflector, which can be used in wavelength division multiplexing …

Si-based Mach-Zehnder wavelength/mode multi/demultiplexer for a WDM/MDM transmission system

S Ohta, T Fujisawa, S Makino, T Sakamoto, T Matsui… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a low-loss and low-crosstalk Mach-Zehnder
mode/wavelength multi/demultiplexer for WDM/MDM transmission based on a Si-photonics …

Coherent optical transceivers scaling and integration challenges

T Kobayashi, J Cho, M Lamponi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advancement of digital coherent technologies has dramatically increased the system
capacity per single-core single-mode fiber to the point that we can now approach the …

Fair comparison of complexity between a multi-band CAP and DMT for data center interconnects

JL Wei, C Sánchez, E Giacoumidis - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first known detailed analysis and fair
comparison of complexity of a 56 Gb/s multi-band carrierless amplitude and phase (CAP) …

Ultra-compact, flat-top demultiplexer using anti-reflection contra-directional couplers for CWDM networks on silicon

W Shi, H Yun, C Lin, M Greenberg, X Wang, Y Wang… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) networks with wide channel grids and bandwidths
are promising for low-cost, low-power optical interconnects. Wide-bandwidth, single-band …