• DocumentCode
    2661310
  • Title

    Compact Electro-Optic Modulator on Silicon-on-Insulator Substrates using Cavities with Ultra-Small Modal Volumes

  • Author

    Schmidt, B. ; Xu, Q. ; Shakya, J. ; Lipson, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    13-15 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    40
  • Lastpage
    42
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate an electro-optic modulator using a high-index-contrast silicon Fabry-Perot resonator. This compact high-speed device is a 1-D integrated cavity, only 4.5 lambda/n in length with an embedded p-i-n junction on a silicon-on-insulator platform
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot resonators; electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; semiconductor junctions; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; Si-SiO2; SiO2; high-index-contrast silicon Fabry-Perot resonator; one-dimensional integrated cavity; p-i-n junction; silicon-on-insulator substrates; ultra-compact electro-optic modulator; Electrooptic modulators; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical ring resonators; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Silicon on insulator technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708158
  • Filename
    1708158