Silicon electro-optic modulators based on p-i-n diodes integrated microdisk and microring resonators

Author

Zhou, Linjie ; Poon, Andrew W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report silicon electro-optic modulators based on p-i-n diodes integrated microdisk and microring resonators. Our experiments demonstrate a 380-MHz 20-micron-size microdisk modulator and a 1-GHz 50-micron-size microring modulator, using plusmn1 V driving voltages.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical resonators; p-i-n photodiodes; silicon; Si; frequency 1 GHz; frequency 380 MHz; p-i-n diodes integrated microdisk resonators; p-i-n diodes integrated microring resonators; silicon electro-optic modulators; size 20 mum; size 50 mum; voltage -1 V to 1 V; Bandwidth; Electrooptic modulators; Frequency; Intensity modulation; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical saturation; P-i-n diodes; Resonance; Silicon; (230.4110) Modulators; (230.5750) Resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628291

Filename

4628291