• DocumentCode
    1793617
  • Title

    High-speed silicon modulators with slow-wave electrodes

  • Author

    Ran Ding ; Yangjin Ma ; Yang Liu ; Yisu Yang ; Lim, Andy Eu-Jin ; Lo, Patrick Guo-Qiang ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a high-speed dual-drive silicon traveling-wave modulator with slowwave, periodically phase-matched transmission-line electrodes and discuss the design aspects of such an approach. Our design also ensures true single-RF-mode operation independent of signaling schemes.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; high-frequency transmission lines; optical modulation; optical phase matching; silicon; slow wave structures; Si; high-speed dual-drive silicon traveling-wave modulator; periodically phase-matched transmission-line electrodes; signaling schemes; single-RF-mode operation; slow-wave electrodes; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.35
  • Filename
    6886715