Title :
A high speed Mach-Zehnder silicon evanescent modulator using capacitively loaded traveling wave electrode
Author :
Chen, Hui-Wen ; Kuo, Ying-hao ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder silicon evanescent modulator that implements a slotline design for the electrodes. The device has a modulation efficiency of 1.6 V-mm and modulation bandwidth of 20 GHz.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electrodes; elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; optical design techniques; optical modulation; optical waveguides; silicon; slot lines; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Si; bandwidth 20 GHz; capacitively loaded traveling wave electrode; high speed Mach-Zehnder modulator; modulation bandwidth; modulation efficiency; silicon evanescent modulator; silicon waveguide; slotline design; Electrodes; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338370
