Coherent Transceivers Using SOA–Comb Architectures for Short-Reach Links Beyond 1 Tb/s
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Abstract
We investigate power-efficient multi-wavelength coherent transceivers for short-reach optical interconnects targeting 1.2 Tb/s throughput. A single optical frequency comb can be used for both data modulation and distributed local oscillators. This comb-assisted architecture can be combined with integrated semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and silicon photonic traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators (TW-MZMs). We analyze two configurations for this combination, placing the SOAs either before or after the modulators. Our results show that positioning SOAs after the modulators enhances overall power efficiency, while longer (4 mm) modulators provide superior power handling due to lower total loss while providing a sufficient bandwidth. Furthermore, by adjusting the power-splitting ratio between the data carrier and the distributed local oscillator, the minimum achievable bit error rate (BER) can be tuned in the post-modulation SOA configuration. These findings offer design insights for optimizing coherent multi-wavelength transceivers based on silicon photonics for next-generation intra-datacenter links.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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