1.23-Tb/s per Wavelength Single-Waveguide On-Chip Optical Interconnect Enabled by Mode-division Multiplexing

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a groundbreaking on-chip optical interconnect achieving 1.23 Tb/s per wavelength using mode-division multiplexing and advanced digital signal processing in a silicon waveguide.

Contribution

It introduces a novel on-chip mode-division multiplexing technique combined with MIMO processing to significantly increase data capacity per wavelength.

Findings

Achieved 1.23 Tb/s net capacity per wavelength

Implemented 11×11 MIMO digital signal processing

Demonstrated feasibility of high-capacity on-chip optical links

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a record net capacity per wavelength of 1.23~Tb/s over a single silicon-on-insulator (SOI) multimode waveguide for optical interconnects employing on-chip mode-division multiplexing and 11$\times$11 multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) digital signal processing.