Title :
Sub-volt drive voltage, ultra wide bandwidth substrate removed electro-optic modulators
Author :
Dogru, Selim ; Dagli, Nadir
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper reports for the first time a 0.77 V Vπ modulator with larger than 67 GHz bandwidth. Such a device can be directly driven without an external modulator driver and enables applications that deliver ultra wide bandwidths needed in fiber optic communications.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; Vπ modulator; fiber optic communications; ultrawide bandwidth substrate removed electrooptic modulators; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Modulation; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry;
Conference_Titel :
Device Research Conference (DRC), 2014 72nd Annual
Conference_Location :
Santa Barbara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5405-6
DOI :
10.1109/DRC.2014.6872289
