Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications
Electrical-optical signal processing has been shown to be a promising path to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art all-electrical data converters. In addition to ultra-broadband signal processing, it allows leveraging ultra-low jitter mode-locked lasers and thus increasing the aperture jitte...
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| author | Andrea Zazzi Juliana Muller Maxim Weizel Jonas Koch Dengyang Fang Alvaro Moscoso-Martir Ali Tabatabaei Mashayekh Arka D. Das Daniel Drays Florian Merget Franz X. Kartner Stephan Pachnicke Christian Koos J. Christoph Scheytt Jeremy Witzens |
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| description | Electrical-optical signal processing has been shown to be a promising path to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art all-electrical data converters. In addition to ultra-broadband signal processing, it allows leveraging ultra-low jitter mode-locked lasers and thus increasing the aperture jitter limited effective number of bits at high analog signal frequencies. In this paper, we review our recent progress towards optically enabled time- and frequency-interleaved analog-to-digital converters, as well as their monolithic integration in electronic-photonic integrated circuits. For signal frequencies up to 65 GHz, an optoelectronic track-and-hold amplifier based on the source-emitter-follower architecture is shown as a power efficient approach in optically enabled BiCMOS technology. At higher signal frequencies, integrated photonic filters enable signal slicing in the frequency domain and further scaling of the conversion bandwidth, with the reconstruction of a 140 GHz optical signal being shown. We further show how such optically enabled data converter architectures can be applied to a nonlinear Fourier transform based integrated transceiver in particular and discuss their applicability to broadband optical links in general. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e2cc858df9364b0c87598149c9a57bba2024-04-22T20:40:06ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society2644-13492021-01-01120922110.1109/OJSSCS.2021.31109439530562Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical CommunicationsAndrea Zazzi0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1301-5407Juliana Muller1Maxim Weizel2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2699-9839Jonas Koch3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3924-9474Dengyang Fang4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-6098Alvaro Moscoso-Martir5Ali Tabatabaei Mashayekh6Arka D. Das7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-2697Daniel Drays8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2222-4246Florian Merget9https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-1681Franz X. Kartner10https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8829-5461Stephan Pachnicke11https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-7938Christian Koos12J. Christoph Scheytt13Jeremy Witzens14https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2896-7243Institute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyHeinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, GermanyChair of Communications, Kiel University, Kiel, GermanyInstitute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyInstitute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyDepartment of Ultrafast Optics and X-Rays, German Electron-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, GermanyChair of Communications, Kiel University, Kiel, GermanyInstitute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GermanyHeinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, GermanyInstitute of Integrated Photonics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyElectrical-optical signal processing has been shown to be a promising path to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art all-electrical data converters. In addition to ultra-broadband signal processing, it allows leveraging ultra-low jitter mode-locked lasers and thus increasing the aperture jitter limited effective number of bits at high analog signal frequencies. In this paper, we review our recent progress towards optically enabled time- and frequency-interleaved analog-to-digital converters, as well as their monolithic integration in electronic-photonic integrated circuits. For signal frequencies up to 65 GHz, an optoelectronic track-and-hold amplifier based on the source-emitter-follower architecture is shown as a power efficient approach in optically enabled BiCMOS technology. At higher signal frequencies, integrated photonic filters enable signal slicing in the frequency domain and further scaling of the conversion bandwidth, with the reconstruction of a 140 GHz optical signal being shown. We further show how such optically enabled data converter architectures can be applied to a nonlinear Fourier transform based integrated transceiver in particular and discuss their applicability to broadband optical links in general.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9530562/Photonic integrated circuitssilicon photonicsanalog-to-digital conversionsignal samplingtime-interleaved ADCsspectrally-sliced ADCs |
| spellingShingle | Andrea Zazzi Juliana Muller Maxim Weizel Jonas Koch Dengyang Fang Alvaro Moscoso-Martir Ali Tabatabaei Mashayekh Arka D. Das Daniel Drays Florian Merget Franz X. Kartner Stephan Pachnicke Christian Koos J. Christoph Scheytt Jeremy Witzens Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society Photonic integrated circuits silicon photonics analog-to-digital conversion signal sampling time-interleaved ADCs spectrally-sliced ADCs |
| title | Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications |
| title_full | Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications |
| title_fullStr | Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications |
| title_short | Optically Enabled ADCs and Application to Optical Communications |
| title_sort | optically enabled adcs and application to optical communications |
| topic | Photonic integrated circuits silicon photonics analog-to-digital conversion signal sampling time-interleaved ADCs spectrally-sliced ADCs |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9530562/ |
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