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    Novel concept for VCSEL enhanced silicon photonic coherent transceiver
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2019) Seiler, Pascal M.; Ronniger, Gregor; Troppenz, Ute; Sigmund, Ariane; Moehrle, Martin; Peczek, Anna; Zimmermann, Lars
    We present a novel concept for an integrated silicon photonic coherent transceiver using vertical-emitting laser sources at 1550 nm. In a state of the art external modulation configuration, we deploy a VCSEL on the transmit and a HCSEL on the receive side. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by externally modulating the VCSEL with QPSK at up to 28 Gbaud. We also perform experiments with the VCSEL-HCSEL configuration in a slave-master optical injection locking setup for future data center interconnects. The results show stable locking conditions and the VCSEL is detuned to perform predominant phase modulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time direct phase modulation of a VCSEL under optical injection locking was demonstrated using two vertically emitting laser sources as master - and slave laser. © 2019 Author(s).
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    High-temperature high-sensitivity AlN-on-SOI Lamb wave resonant strain sensor
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2018) Dou, Shaoxu; Qi, Mengke; Chen, Cong; Zhou, Hong; Wang, Yong; Shang, Zhengguo; Yang, Jing; Wang, Dengpan; Mu, Xiaojing
    A piezoelectric AlN-on-SOI structured MEMS Lamb wave resonator (LWR) is presented for high-temperature strain measurement. The LWR has a composite membrane of a 1 μm thick AlN film and a 30 μm thick device silicon layer. The excited acoustic waves include Rayleigh wave and Lamb waves. A tensile strain sensor has been prepared with one LWR mounted on a uniaxial tensile plate, and its temperature characteristics from 15.4°C to 250°C and tensile strain behaviors from 0 μϵ to 400 μϵ of Rayleigh wave and S4 mode Lamb wave were tested. The temperature test verifies the adaptability of the tensile strain sensor to temperature up to 250°C, and S4 mode Lamb wave and Rayleigh wave represent almost the same temperature characteristics. The strain test demonstrates that S4 mode Lamb wave shows much higher strain sensitivity (-0.48 ppm/μϵ) than Rayleigh wave (0.05 ppm/μϵ) and confirms its advantage of strain sensitivity. Finally, for this one-LWR strain sensor, a method of beat frequency between S4 mode Lamb wave and Rayleigh wave is proposed for temperature compensation and high-sensitivity strain readout.
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    Transmitters and receivers in SiGe BiCMOS technology for sensitive gas spectroscopy at 222 - 270 GHz
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2019) Schmalz, K.; Rothbart, N.; Eissa, M.H.; Borngräber, J.; Kissinger, D.; Hübers, H.-W.
    This paper presents transmitter and receiver components for a gas spectroscopy system. The components are fabricated in IHP's 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. Two fractional-N phase-locked loops are used to generate dedicated frequency ramps for the transmitter and receiver and frequency shift keying for the transmitter. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the absorption line of gaseous methanol (CH 3 OH) at 247.6 GHz is used as measure for the performance of the system. The implemented mixer-first receiver allows a high performance of the system due to its linearity up to an input power of -10 dBm. Using a transmitter-array with an output power of 7 dBm an SNR of 4660 (integration time of 2 ms for each data point) was obtained for the 247.6 GHz absorption line of CH 3 OH at 5 Pa. We have extended our single frequency-band system for 228 - 252 GHz to a 2-band system to cover the range 222 - 270 GHz by combining corresponding two transmitters and receivers with the frequency bands 222 - 256 GHz and 250 - 270 GHz on single transmitter- and receiver-chips. This 2-band operation allows a parallel spectra acquisition and therefore a high flexibility of data acquisition for the two frequency-bands. The 50 GHz bandwidth allows for highly specific and selective gas sensing. © 2019 Author(s).