Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver

Rodrigues, Francisco; Rodrigues, Carla; Santos, João; Rodrigues, Cláudio; Teixeira, António

doi:10.3390/photonics10020182

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Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver

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Francisco Rodrigues

^1,2,3,*,

Carla Rodrigues

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João Santos

^1,2,3,

Cláudio Rodrigues

⁴ and

António Teixeira

^1,2,3

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PICadvanced S.A., Edifício Central, PCI- Creative Science Park, Via do Conhecimento, 3830-352 Aveiro, Portugal

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Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI), Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

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Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

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Altice Labs, R. José Ferreira Pinto Basto, 3810-196 Aveiro, Portugal

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Photonics 2023, 10(2), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10020182

Submission received: 12 December 2022 / Revised: 6 January 2023 / Accepted: 29 January 2023 / Published: 8 February 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Communication and Network)

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Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are taking a major role in the telecommunications and datacenter markets. The increased complexity of coexisting and fast evolving standards for Passive Optical Networks (PONs) suggests the introduction of PICs will be the next step in PON related optoelectronics. The PICs ecosystem has greatly matured in the past years, becoming a solution that can cope with the requirements of industry and academia, and presenting the flexibility of combining multiple platforms available towards viable commercial solutions. In this review, the evolution of PONs and PICs is presented, with a focus on the optoelectronic integration of PICs for PONs and coherent PONs. To demonstrate the potential of PICs and their combination with electronics, a quasi-coherent receiver based on co-hosted PIC and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is presented and characterized.

Keywords: Passive Optical Network (PON); Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC); coherent receiver; next-generation passive optical network 2 (NG-PON2); 50 Gbps PON; monolithic integration

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Rodrigues, F.; Rodrigues, C.; Santos, J.; Rodrigues, C.; Teixeira, A. Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver. Photonics 2023, 10, 182. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10020182

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Rodrigues F, Rodrigues C, Santos J, Rodrigues C, Teixeira A. Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver. Photonics. 2023; 10(2):182. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10020182

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Rodrigues, Francisco, Carla Rodrigues, João Santos, Cláudio Rodrigues, and António Teixeira. 2023. "Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver" Photonics 10, no. 2: 182. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10020182

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Rodrigues, F., Rodrigues, C., Santos, J., Rodrigues, C., & Teixeira, A. (2023). Photonic Integrated Circuits for Passive Optical Networks: Outlook and Case Study of Integrated Quasi-Coherent Receiver. Photonics, 10(2), 182. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10020182

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