Title :
High-speed silicon modulators with slow-wave electrodes
Author :
Ran Ding ; Yangjin Ma ; Yang Liu ; Yisu Yang ; Lim, Andy Eu-Jin ; Lo, Patrick Guo-Qiang ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a high-speed dual-drive silicon traveling-wave modulator with slowwave, periodically phase-matched transmission-line electrodes and discuss the design aspects of such an approach. Our design also ensures true single-RF-mode operation independent of signaling schemes.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; high-frequency transmission lines; optical modulation; optical phase matching; silicon; slow wave structures; Si; high-speed dual-drive silicon traveling-wave modulator; periodically phase-matched transmission-line electrodes; signaling schemes; single-RF-mode operation; slow-wave electrodes; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.35
