Abstract

Keeping up with bandwidth requirements in next generation short- and long-reach optical communication systems will require migrating from simple modulation formats such as on-off keying to more advanced formats such as quaternary phase-shift keying (QPSK). In this paper, we report the first demonstration of QPSK signal generation in the O-band using a silicon dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM). The performance of the silicon DD-MZM is assessed at 20 Gb/s and compared against a similar DD-MZM based on LiNbO₃, showing a limited implementation power penalty of only 1.5 dB.

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