Standing-wave enhanced electroabsorption modulator for 40-GHz optical pulse generation

Author

Chou, Hsu-Feng ; Chiu, Yi-Jen ; Bowers, John E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

217

Abstract

Compact 40-GHz optical pulse generators are crucial to the implementation of practical 160-Gb/s optical time-division-multiplexing systems with 40-Gb/s electrical time-division-multiplexing tributaries. In this letter, we report on a novel standing-wave enhanced mode of the electroabsorption modulator (EAM) which can improve the performance of a single EAM for 40-GHz pulse generation. Both experimental and theoretical results indicate that the distributed effect plays an important role in the high-frequency operation of the EAM and the length of the microwave termination line must be adjusted properly to maximize the performance.

Keywords

coplanar waveguides; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; time division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 40 GHz; 40 Gbit/s; 40-GHz optical pulse generation; CPW lines; distributed effect; electrical time-division-multiplexing tributaries; high-frequency operation; microwave termination line length adjustment; optical time-division-multiplexing systems; standing-wave enhanced electroabsorption modulator; standing-wave enhanced mode; traveling-wave electrodes; Coplanar waveguides; High speed optical techniques; Microwave devices; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.806850

Filename

1174124