thinking different optical communications systems thanks...
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THINKING DIFFERENT OPTICAL
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
THANKS TO SILICON
PHOTONICS
Silvio Abrate
Nice | 30 June 2016
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN PHOTONIC INTEGRATION?
TO ME, PHOTONIC INTEGRATION IS NOT ONLY INTEGRATING SEVERAL
FUNCTIONS INTO ONE SINGLE DEVICE, IT IS NOT ONLY REPLACING
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS WITH SILICON COMPONENTS
TO ME PHOTONIC INTEGRATION ALSO MEANS THINKING SISTEMS AND DEVICES
SINERGICALLY, TAYLORING DEVICES ON SYSTEMS BUT ALSO SYSTEMS ON THE
TECHNOLOGY
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AN EXAMPLE
TO ME, PHOTONIC INTEGRATION IS NOT ONLY INTEGRATING SEVERAL
FUNCTIONS INTO ONE SINGLE DEVICE, IT IS NOT ONLY REPLACING
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS WITH SILICON COMPONENTS
WE DON’T WANT OPTICAL SOURCES AT THE CUSTOMER PREMISES
REFLECTIVE NETWORKS
λ1
λ2 λ1 CW
λ2 DS
λ1 CW λ2 DS +
λ1 US
CO CUSTOMER
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IN THE FIELD OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS
Most of WDM complexity and cost
(tunable laser) left at the OLT
No uncontrolled wavelengths
at ONU switch-on
PROs
HERE COMES THE SILICON!
Challenging power budget:
coherent detection at the OLT, much
DSP (long FEC, equalizers, etc.)
Modulator and tunable optical
filter at the ONU
CONs
Modulator and tunable optical
filter at the ONU
TELECOM
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FROM THE FABULOUS EU PROJECT
Reflective WDM PON based on FDM / FDMA
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… SUMMARIZING ...
The ONU reflects the seed signal, modulates it and performs
90° polarization rotation Purpose of the project is to integrate the ONU on a Silicon
Photonics PIC
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… SUMMARIZING
Polarization rotation allows simplified coherent detection at the OLT
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WITH DISCRETE COMPONENTS
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BENCHMARKING WITH DISCRETE COMPONENTS
Number of ONUs
Bit-rate per ONU Maximum ODN loss
Theoretical splitter insertion
loss
Optical margin
32 4 Gb/s 27 dB 15 dB 12 dB
64 2 Gb/s 28 dB 18 dB 10 dB
128 1 Gb/s 31 dB (Class N2) 21 dB 10 dB
Number of ONUs
Bit-rate per ONU Maximum ODN loss
Theoretical splitter insertion
loss
Optical margin
128 375 Mb/s 37 dB (Class E2) 21 dB 16 dB
256 187.5 Mb/s 38 dB (Class E2) 24 dB 14 dB
512 93.75 Mb/s 39 dB (Class E2) 27 dB 12 dB
4 wavelengths @32 Gbps
4 wavelengths @10 Gbps
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THE SILICON DEVICE
InP over Si enables amplification in PIC:
fundamental for complex functions
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IS IT LOW COST?
About 100$
(80% due to packaging)
Considering:
>1.000.000 pieces/year
the size of the SiP chip, the SOA, the driver
commercial FDM IC
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WITH THE FIRST RELEASE OF THE INTEGRATED ONU
About 100$
(80% due to packaging)
20 21 22 23 24 2510
-6
10-5
10-4
10-3
10-2
10-1
ODNLOSS
[dB]
BE
RDATACOM
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WHAT ABOUT INTERCONNECTS?
• As there is no users multiplexing, there is no saving on the
number of lasers using a reflective architecture with
different wavelengths.
INTERCONNECT
• What about re-modulating one only wavelengths with two
different signals?
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AN EXAMPLE OF POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURES
• Reflective: one fiber
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AN EXAMPLE OF POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURES
• Folded: a fiber pair
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PRELIMINARY RESULTS WITH DISCRETE COMPONENTS
sim_scheme2_2mzm_pbs_pres: Eye Diagram at b2207080, scope3, Run 1
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16
0
5e-008
1e-007
1.5e-007
2e-007
2.5e-007
3e-007
Time [ns]
[a.u.]
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LESSONS LEARNED
we co-develop systems
and components:
it is not only substituting
and integrating
we lower packaging
costs
we can rely on
amplification in the PIC;
hybrid integration seems
an efficient way
Let’s wait for the silicon laser!
SiP can definitely benefit optical networks provided that:
SILVIO ABRATE
Head of Applied Photonics
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 61
10138 Torino, Italia
T. +39 011 2276302
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