30Gbit/s PAM-4 transmission by modulating a dual silicon ring resonator modulator

PAM-4 transmission is established by modulating two silicon ring modulators in series with two uncorrelated NRZ encoded data sources. The two modulators are thermally tuned to obtain different extinction ratios. 30Gb/s PAM-4 transmissions are achieved with only 1Vpp.

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