Committee members: Fontaine, Nicolas K.; Islam, M. Saif
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-82500-7
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Ph.D.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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University of California, Davis
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2015
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The incredible growth of the network capacity requires bandwidth-scalable and high-fidelity optical waveform generation, detection and manipulation. However, large bandwidth waveform generation and detection with high-fidelity are challenging because the direct modulation and detection scheme using electrical components cannot go beyond 100 GHz. Bandwidth-scalable transceivers can overcome this bottleneck by using parallel optical spectral-slices. Besides, photonic-integrated-circuit (PIC) based optical signal processing components that support either single mode or multimode signal operations enable low-latency and low-cost waveform manipulation.