Silicon-on-Insulator Modulators Using a Quarter-Wave Phase-Shifted Bragg Grating

Author

Caverley, Michael ; Xu Wang ; Murray, Kyle ; Jaeger, Nicolas A. F. ; Chrostowski, Lukas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

27

Issue

22

fYear

2015

Firstpage

2331

Lastpage

2334

Abstract

We demonstrate, on the silicon-on-insulator platform, a modulator that uses a quarter-wave phase-shifted Bragg grating resonator. The modulator has open eye diagrams at data rates of up to 32 Gb/s. A bit error ratio of less than 10-¹⁰ is demonstrated using a 2³¹ - 1 pseudorandom binary sequence pattern at a data rate of 25 Gb/s.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; binary sequences; electro-optical modulation; error statistics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical phase shifters; optical resonators; optical retarders; random sequences; silicon-on-insulator; bit error ratio; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; bit rate 32 Gbit/s; data rates; open eye diagrams; pseudorandom binary sequence pattern; quarter-wave phase-shifted Bragg grating resonator; silicon-on-insulator modulators; Bragg gratings; Erbium; Optical resonators; Phase modulation; Silicon; Voltage measurement; Bragg gratings; Silicon photonics; electrooptic modulators; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2015.2462759

Filename

7172452