研究目的
Investigating the design and performance of a low-loss passive Si3N4 serial-to-WDM interface for energy-efficient optical interconnects in data centers.
研究成果
The four-channel PWSM circuit demonstrates that current complexities of electronic serialization and parallelization of data packets can be done passively in the optical domain. The integrated optical delay lines on low-loss Si3N4 waveguide platform facilitate the serializing/deserializing of long length packets on PIC. The propagation loss of the integrated delay waveguides can be further reduced by changing the waveguide cross-section geometry and by increasing the bending radius, making the proposed interface a practical solution for optical passive serial-to-WDM and WDM-to-serial process.
研究不足
The incremental loss difference between the adjacent channels due to the 3.1 dB/m loss in the delay waveguides limits the scalability of the PWSM process in terms of the number of channels. The device's flexibility is limited by the fixed length data packet design for 25 Gb/s data rate channels.
1:Experimental Design and Method Selection:
The PWSM device is designed with a 1 × 4 channel optical wavelength demultiplexer integrated with optical delay lines in a low-loss Si3N4 waveguide platform. The device passively time compresses/expands serial packets through optical wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing.
2:Sample Selection and Data Sources:
The experiment uses four WDM channels to form a 64 ns long data packet from four 16 ns data segments.
3:List of Experimental Equipment and Materials:
The setup includes a continuous wave (CW) laser source, polarization controller, EDFA, variable optical attenuator, photodetector, and digital communication analyzer.
4:Experimental Procedures and Operational Workflow:
The optical output signals from each of the four optical output ports of the PWSM circuit are coupled to a single mode fiber one at a time. The time delay between adjacent channels is measured, and the BER performance of the aggregated 64 ns packet is evaluated.
5:Data Analysis Methods:
The BER and power penalty of the 64 ns aggregated packet are measured with respect to the back to back generated single 64 ns long data.
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