• DocumentCode
    1656508
  • Title

    Low-voltage, high-extinction-ratio, Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator for CMOS compatible integration

  • Author

    Ding, Jianfeng ; Chen, Hongtao ; Yang, Lin ; Zhang, Lei ; Ji, Ruiqiang ; Tian, Yonghui ; Zhu, Weiwei ; Lu, Yangyang ; Zhou, Ping ; Min, Rui

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a carrier-depletion optical modulator with the driving voltage swing of 2 V and the extinction ratio of 12.79 dB at 12.5 Gbit/s. Even the driving voltage is reduced to 1 V, the the device still has an extinction ratio of 7.67 dB.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; silicon; CMOS compatible integration; Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s; carrier depletion optical modulator; extinction ratio; voltage 1 V; voltage 2 V; High speed optical techniques; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325769