High-speed, low-power optical modulators in silicon

Author

Leuthold, Juerg ; Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Alloatti, L. ; Palmer, R. ; Korn, D. ; Pfeifle, J. ; Lauermann, M. ; Dinu, R. ; Wehrli, Silvan ; Jazbinsek, M. ; Gunter, P. ; Waldow, M. ; Wahlbrink, Thorsten ; Bolten, Jens ; Fournier, M. ; Fedeli, J.M. ; Bogaert

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electromagn. Fields (IFH), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Silicon modulators are maturing and it is anticipated that they are going to substitute state-of-the art modulators. We review current silicon modulator approaches and then discuss the silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) approach in more detail. The SOH approach has recently enabled the operation with an energy consumption of 60 fJ/bit and demonstrated the generation of up to 112 Gbit/s per polarization in a compact silicon modulator of 1.5 mm length.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; light polarisation; low-power electronics; modulators; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; silicon; SOH approach; Si; energy consumption; high-speed low-power optical modulator; polarization; silicon-organic hybrid approach; size 1.5 mm; Electrooptical waveguides; Integrated optics; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Photonics; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6603001

Filename

6603001