DocumentCode
159387
Title
An efficient MOS-capacitor based silicon modulator and CMOS drivers for optical transmitters
Author
Webster, Mark ; Gothoskar, P. ; Patel, Vaibhav ; Piede, D. ; Anderson, S. ; Tummidi, R. ; Adams, David ; Appel, C. ; Metz, Peter ; Sunder, Sanjay ; Dama, Bipin ; Shastri, Kalpendu
Author_Institution
Cisco Syst., Inc., Allentown, PA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
27-29 Aug. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present an efficient MOS-capacitor based silicon modulator. In an MZI configuration, a 9dB extinction ratio at 28 Gbps is achieved from the 1V output of a low-power CMOS inverter driver IC.
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; MOS capacitors; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; invertors; optical modulation; optical transmitters; silicon; MOS capacitor; MZI configuration; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; bit rate 28 Gbit/s; extinction ratio; low-power CMOS inverter driver IC; optical transmitters; silicon modulator; voltage 1 V; CMOS integrated circuits; High-speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; CMOS driver; MOS; lumped-element; modulator; silicon photonics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Paris
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-2282-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/Group4.2014.6961998
Filename
6961998
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