Title :
Differential optical ring modulator: Breaking the bandwidth/quality-factor trade-off
Author :
Saman Saeedi;Behrooz Abiri;Ali Hajimiri;Azita Emami
Author_Institution :
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Abstract :
We present a differential ring modulator that breaks the optical bandwidth/quality factor trade-off known to limit the speed of high-Q ring modulators. This structure maintains a constant energy in the ring to avoid pattern-dependent power droop.
Keywords :
"Optical modulation","Couplings","Optical device fabrication","Structural rings","Couplers","High-speed optical techniques"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341731
