This paper describes how silicon photonic (SiPh) opto-electronic integration and packaging, with its improved RF performance, is designed to enable next-generation coherent transmission beyond 100Gbaud and provide network operators with the ability to avoid “half-step” capacity upgrades and allow them the full step upgrades they need without sacrificing reach or stranding network bandwidth when migrating from current-generation solutions.

H. ZHANG, B. ZHU, S. PARK, C. DOERR, M. AYDINLIK, J. GEYER, T.PFAU, G. PENDOCK, R. AROCA, F. LIU, C. RASMUSSEN, B. MIKKELSEN, P. I. BOREL, T. GEISLER, R. JENSEN, […]