High Speed Direct Modulation of a Heterogeneously Integrated InP/SOI DFB Laser

An integrated laser source to a silicon photonics circuit is an important requirement for optical interconnects. We present direct modulation of a heterogeneously integrated distributed feedback laser on and coupled to a silicon waveguide. We demonstrate a 28 Gb/s pseudo-random bit sequence non-return-to-zero data transmission over 2 km non-zero dispersion shifted fiber with a 1-dB power penalty. Additionally, we show 40-Gb/s duobinary modulation generated using the bandwidth limitation of the laser for both back-to-back and fiber transmission configurations. Furthermore, we investigate the device performance for the pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) at 20 GBd for high-speed short-reach applications.