High speed silicon based optical modulators

Author

Reed, Graham T. ; Gardes, Frederic Y. ; Thomson, David J. ; Liu, Siyuan ; Petropoulos, P. ; Fedeli, J.-M. ; O´Faolain, L. ; Debnath, Kapil ; Krauss, Thomas F. ; Lever, L. ; Ikonic, Zoran ; Kelsall, R.W.

Author_Institution

ECS/ORC, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In the last 8 years carrier depletion modulators have become the mainstream high data rate building block for high performance silicon photonics link. In this work we describe carrier depletion MZI and ring modulators, cavity structures for modulation enhancement and QCSE modulators, all of which are under development as part of the UK Silicon Photonics project and the European HELIOS project.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical modulation; optical resonators; quantum confined Stark effect; silicon; QCSE modulators; Si; carrier depletion MZI modulator; carrier depletion ring modulator; cavity structures; data rate; high performance silicon photonics link; high speed silicon based optical modulators; modulation enhancement; quantum-confined Stark effect; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

Filename

6706148