News: Optoelectronics
3 March 2023
Mitsubishi Electric develops 200Gbps (112Gbaud PAM4) EML chip supporting four CWDM signals
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has developed a 200Gbps (112Gbaud four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4)) electro-absorption modulator laser diode (EML) chip that doubles the speed of the firm’s existing 100Gbps EML chip due to a proprietary hybrid waveguide structure. Support for coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) of four wavelengths realizes 800Gbps transmission using four chips or 1.6Tbps using eight chips.
Improved operational speed (up to 200Gbps), high extinction ratio and high optical output power are achieved due to Mitsubishi Electric’s unique hybrid waveguide structure, which combines a buried heterostructure laser diode for high optical-output power and a high-mesa waveguide electro-absorption modulator.
The greatly improved performance is expected to raise the transmission speed of optical transceivers used in data centers to respond to mushrooming data-traffic demand due to the rapid growth of video distribution services and cloud computing.
Mitsubishi Electric is presenting its new chip at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2023) in San Diego, CA, USA (5-9 March).
