Title :
A low-voltage PAM-4 SOI ring-based modulator
Author :
Hai, Mohammed Shafiqul ; Fard, Monireh Moayedi Pour ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A novel modulator for PAM-4 designed on a silicon on insulator (SOI) platform generates a clear four level eye diagram. The forward biased modulator is driven with a 120 mVpp electrical signal without pre-emphasis at 120 Mb/s.
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optical modulation; pulse amplitude modulation; silicon-on-insulator; PAM-4 SOI; Si; bit rate 120 Mbit/s; pulse amplitude modulation; ring-based modulator; silicon on insulator; voltage 120 mV; Optical device fabrication; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995314