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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
10Gbps monolithic silicon FTTH transceiver without laser diode for a new PON configuration
Jing Zhang1, Tsung-Yang Liow, Guo-Qiang Lo
1Institute of Microelectronics, Agency for Science, Technology and Research 11 Science Park Road, Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117685. zhangj@ime.a-star.edu.sg
Abstract:
A new passive optical network (PON) configuration and a novel silicon photonic transceiver architecture for optical network unit (ONU) are proposed, eliminating the need for an internal laser source in ONU. The Si transceiver is fully monolithic, includes integrated wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters, modulators (MOD) and photo-detectors (PD), and demonstrates low-cost high volume manufacturability.
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