Directly-modulated IM/DD OFDM transmission over 100-km SSMF using SSB filtering with two silicon micro-ring resonators

Mohamed E Chaibi (1) , Karim Hassan (2) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Christophe Peucheret (1)

1 FOTON - Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information

Optical single sideband signals generation using two silicon micro-ring resonators is demonstrated for 5.3-GHz wideband OFDM modulation. Transmission at 14.69 Gb/s over 100-km SSMF is made possible thanks to the SSB filtering provided by the MRRs.

Mots clés: Optical communications; Integrated optics devices; Wavelength filtering devices

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Mohamed E Chaibi, Karim Hassan, Laurent Bramerie, Christophe Peucheret. Directly-modulated IM/DD OFDM transmission over 100-km SSMF using SSB filtering with two silicon micro-ring resonators. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2017), Optical Society of America, May 2017, San Jose, California, United States. pp.STu1M.4, ⟨10.1364/CLEO_SI.2017.STu1M.4⟩. ⟨hal-01541218⟩