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- Patent Title: Integrated control loop for linearization and temperature compensation of an electro-absorption modulator
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Application No.: US16263169Application Date: 2019-01-31
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Publication No.: US10530484B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Gudmundur A. Hjartarson , William A. Hagley
- Applicant: ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Kanata
- Assignee: ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc.
- Current Assignee: ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Kanata
- Agency: Miltons IP/p.i.
- Main IPC: H04B10/50
- IPC: H04B10/50 ; H04B10/588

Abstract:
An integrated high speed electro-optical control loop for very high-speed linearization and temperature compensation of an electro-absorption modulator (EAM) for analog optical data center interconnect applications is disclosed. The control loop can function in a stable manner because the electronics and optical components are monolithically integrated on a single substrate in small form factor. Because of the small size enabled by monolithic integration, the temperatures of the optical blocks and electronics blocks are tightly coupled, and the control loop time delays and phase delays are small enough to be stable, even for very high frequency operation. This arrangement enables a low cost, low power analog transmitter implementation for data center optical interconnect applications using advanced modulation schemes, such as PAM-4 and DP-QPSK.
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