• DocumentCode
    1793648
  • Title

    50 Gb/s silicon traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator near 1300 nm

  • Author

    Streshinsky, Matthew ; Ran Ding ; Novack, Ari ; Yang Liu ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Lim, Andy Eu-Jin ; Chen, Edward Koh Sing ; Lo, Patrick Guo-Qiang ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Microelectron., A*STAR (Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res.), Singapore, Singapore
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A silicon traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator near 1300 nm is demonstrated to operate at 50 Gb/s with a differential 2 Vpp signal at 0 V reverse bias, achieving a 800 fJ/bit power consumption.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation; power consumption; silicon; travelling wave tubes; Si; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; differential Vpp signal; power consumption; silicon traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator; voltage 2 V to 0 V; High-speed optical techniques; Junctions; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.5
  • Filename
    6886731