• DocumentCode
    2097190
  • Title

    High-speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator operating beyond 40 Gb/s

  • Author

    Jing Wang ; Chao Qiu ; Hao Li ; Le Li ; Pang, Ai-Chun ; Zhen Sheng ; Aimin Wu ; Xi Wang ; Shichang Zou ; Fuwan Gan

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Functional Mater. for Inf., Shanghai Inst. of Microsyst. & Inf. Technol., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report a carrier-depleted silicon-based Mach-Zehnder optical modulator operating beyond 40 Gb/s. The device has a VπL of 16 V·mm and an on-chip insertion loss as low as 6.2 dB.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical losses; silicon; Si; carrier depletion; high-speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator; on-chip insertion loss;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • ISSN
    2162-108X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6274-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6510934