DocumentCode
1627225
Title
An alignment tolerant high speed ring resonator based silicon optical modulator
Author
Thomson, D.J. ; Gardes, F.Y. ; Cox, D.C. ; Fedeli, J. ; Mashanovich, G.Z. ; Reed, G.T.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
fYear
2012
Firstpage
198
Lastpage
200
Abstract
Optical modulation up to 40Gbit/s from a silicon ring resonator based device is demonstrated. A self-aligned process is used to form the pn junction reducing performance variations. The power consumption of the device is 8fJ/bit.
Keywords
integrated optics; optical modulation; optical resonators; p-n junctions; power consumption; silicon-on-insulator; Si; alignment tolerant high speed ring resonator; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; optical modulation; pn junction; power consumption; self-aligned process; silicon optical modulator; Adaptive optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
ISSN
1949-2081
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0826-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324132
Filename
6324132
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