• DocumentCode
    2296311
  • Title

    Large extinction ratio 10 Gbit/s silicon optical modulator based on a reverse biased PIPIN diode

  • Author

    Ziebell, Melissa ; Rasigade, Gilles ; Marris-morini, Delphine ; Fédéli, Jean-Marc ; Milesi, Frédéric ; Grosse, Philippe ; Cassan, Éric ; Vivien, Laurent

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. d´´Electron. Fondamentale, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-20 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Experimental results of a high-speed silicon optical modulator based on carrier depletion in a pipin diode are presented. 10 Gbit/s data transmission is obtained, with high extinction ratio (ER) of 8.1 dB and low insertion loss (IL) of ~6 dB.
  • Keywords
    data communication; elemental semiconductors; extinction coefficients; optical losses; optical modulation; p-i-n diodes; silicon; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; carrier depletion; data transmission; extinction ratio; high-speed silicon optical modulator; insertion loss; reverse biased PIPIN diode; silicon optical modulator; High speed optical techniques; Optical device fabrication; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical ring resonators; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, ON
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-315-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953821
  • Filename
    5953821