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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
