Table 1 Literature overview of the state-of-the-art integrated optical coherent receivers

From: A 3.584 Tbps coherent receiver chip on InP-LiNbO3 wafer-level integration platform

Year/Ref

202044

202045

202146

202247

202348

202449

This work

Material

InP

SiGe

Graphene/SOI

SiGe

SiGe

InP

InP/thin-film LiNbO3

Integration Method

Monolithic

Monolithic

Heterogeneous

Monolithic

Monolithic

Monolithic

Heterogeneous

Optical Band

C-band

C-band

C-band

C-band O-band

O-band

C-band

C-band

Polarization No.

2

2

1

1

2

1

1

Channel No.

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

3-dB BW (GHz)

50 (Single PD)

52 (Single PD)

> 67 (Single PD)

33 (Single PD)

42 (Single PD)

80 (Single PD)

140 (Single PD) 60 (Balanced PD)

Symbol Rate (GBaud)

90

96

80

100

60

64

66

128

128

100

100

100

100

Modulation Format

64 QAM

16 QAM

16 QAM

QP SK

16 QAM

QPSK

16 QAM

16 QAM

16 QAM

32 QAM

64 QAM

QP SK

16 QAM

Bit Rate (Gbit s-1λ-1Pol-1)

400

384

320

200

240

128

264

512

512

500

600

200

400

Distance (km)

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

B2B

1040

25