Title :
A low-power biasing scheme for silicon-on-insulator traveling-wave modulators
Author :
Michael Caverley;Han Yun;Lukas Chrostowski;Nicolas A. F. Jaeger
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Abstract :
We propose a biasing scheme for silicon-on-insulator traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators which eliminates the termination-related DC power consumption due to biasing and we present measurements on a high-speed modulator that uses this scheme.
Keywords :
"Electrodes","RF signals","Silicon","Radio frequency","Optical modulation","Junctions"
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2015.7305992
