• DocumentCode
    3013437
  • Title

    Ultralow power silicon microdisk modulators and switches

  • Author

    Watts, Michael R. ; Trotter, Douglas C. ; Young, Ralph W. ; Lentine, Anthony L.

  • Author_Institution
    Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    17-19 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a 4 mum silicon microdisk modulator with a power consumption of 85 fJ/bit. The modulator utilizes a reverse-biased, vertical p-n junction to achieve 10 Gb/s data transmission with 3.5 V drive voltage, BER<10-12, and without signal pre-emphasis. High-speed silicon bandpass switches are constructed from pairs of modulators.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; electro-optical switches; elemental semiconductors; optical communication equipment; silicon; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; switches; ultralow power silicon microdisk modulators; vertical p-n junction; Bit error rate; Energy consumption; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; P-n junctions; Silicon; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cardiff
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1769-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1768-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2008.4638077
  • Filename
    4638077
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3013437