• DocumentCode
    3130668
  • Title

    WDM Silicon Modulators Based on Micro-ring Resonators

  • Author

    Xu, Qianfan ; Schmidt, Brad ; Shakya, Jagat ; Lipson, Michal

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    647
  • Lastpage
    648
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally cascaded silicon micro-ring modulators for WDM interconnection systems. We show clean eye-diagrams when each of the four micro-ring modulators coupled to a single waveguide is modulated at 4 Gbit/s
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical modulation; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; 4 Gbit/s; Si; WDM interconnection systems; cascaded microring resonators; silicon microring modulators; single waveguide; Bandwidth; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Plasma waves; Resonance; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2006.278862
  • Filename
    4054350