Title :
A CMOS compatible external heater-modulator
Author :
DeRose, Christopher T. ; Kekatpure, Rohan ; Starbuck, Andrew ; Pomerene, Andrew ; Lentine, Anthony L.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Photonic Microsyst., Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
We present simulation and experimental results of a novel external heater-modulator structure. A heater efficiency of 21.3 μW/GHz is measured with no power penalty between heater off and heater on states observed at 10 Gbps.
Keywords :
heating; optical fabrication; optical modulation; optical variables measurement; CMOS compatible external heater-modulator; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; heater efficiency measurement; Adaptive optics; Modulation; Power measurement; Resistance heating; Silicon; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2467-7
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2014.6886057
