Optical Communication Technology, Volume. 49, Issue 4, 8(2025)

800 Gb/s 2×FR4 silicon optical module technology solution

SUN Junyan1, WANG Ning2, ZHANG Bo2, and CHEN Honggang2
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  • 1Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecomminications, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Accelink Technologies Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430205, China
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    To meet the urgent demand for high-speed interconnects in data centers driven by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence(AI)computing power, an 800 Gb/s 2×FR4 silicon photonic module technical solution is proposed. This paper introduces the constituent units of the optical module, which employs an integrated multiplexer(MUX)silicon photonic modulator chip, a silicon nitride waveguide cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI)multiplexing structure, and traveling-wave electrode design to achieve efficient modulation and multiplexing of 8×100 Gb/s 4-level pulse amplitude modulation(PAM4)signals. Test results demonstrate that the silicon photonic chip exhibits a 3 dB bandwidth exceeding 30 GHz and an insertion loss ranging from-9 to-12 dB, with all module performance metrics meeting protocol specifications and demonstrating excellent performance.

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    SUN Junyan, WANG Ning, ZHANG Bo, CHEN Honggang. 800 Gb/s 2×FR4 silicon optical module technology solution[J]. Optical Communication Technology, 2025, 49(4): 8

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    Received: Sep. 1, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 15, 2025

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    DOI:10.13921/j.cnki.issn1002-5561.2025.04.002

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