26 March 2024 Generation of an optical 8-amplitude phase shift keying modulator using silicon microrings in add-drop configuration
Suman Debnath, Srikanta Das, Nitish Sinha, Satyabrata Singha, Bishanka Brata Bhowmik
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Abstract

In this work, an optical 8-amplitude phase shift keying (8APSK) modulator has been designed and successfully simulated using three silicon microring modulators (MRMs). The first two MRMs jointly generate a QPSK signal, while the third MRM is connected in an add-drop configuration to synthesize the final 8APSK signal. The MRMs have a junction volume of 4.5×1012 cm3 with carrier recombination lifetime of 100×1012 seconds. We have obtained the simulated constellation plots at various signal-to-noise ratios and achieved a bit error rate of 103 at around 10.7 dB optical signal to noise ratio.

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Suman Debnath, Srikanta Das, Nitish Sinha, Satyabrata Singha, and Bishanka Brata Bhowmik "Generation of an optical 8-amplitude phase shift keying modulator using silicon microrings in add-drop configuration," Optical Engineering 63(3), 035110 (26 March 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.3.035110
Received: 8 September 2023; Accepted: 12 March 2024; Published: 26 March 2024
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KEYWORDS
Optical modulators

Phase shift keying

Waveguides

Microrings

Silicon

Modulation

Modulators

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