Abstract
In this letter, the performance of a 25-Gb/s 1 × 2 multimode interference (MMI) coupler-based monolithic differential phase shift keying (DPSK) receiver integrated with Germanium (Ge) on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photodetector (PD) is presented. Theoretical analysis suggests that the device exhibits more uniform extinction ratio over the C-band compared with a DPSK demodulator based on 2×2 MMI coupler. Electrical scattering parameters (S-parameters) investigated through component level simulation comparing the fabrication tolerance shows power penalty of 1.2 and 5 dB for unbalanced and balanced detection DPSK receiver, respectively. The SOI 1×2 MMI coupler-based unbalanced DPSK receiver has a sensitivity of 0.41 dBm at a bit error rate of 1×10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-9</sup> without postelectrical amplification. The PD integrated single-end detectionbased receiver has a total footprint area of 0.39 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> .
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