Silicon Photonics for 100Gbaud

We reviewed recent breakthroughs on silicon photonic for 100Gbaud operation. We experimentally demonstrated 120Gbaud QPSK and 100Gbaud 32QAM operations using a high performance all-silicon IQ modulator with extinction ratio of >25dB and 6dB-bandwidth of 50GHz.

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