• DocumentCode
    3725930
  • Title

    Wideband slow light effects in 25 Gbps Si photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder modulators

  • Author

    Yosuke Hinakura;Yosuke Terada;Takuya Tamura;Toshihiko Baba

  • Author_Institution
    Yokohama Nat´l Univ., 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We evaluated wideband 25 Gbps error-free operation of Si slow light modulators. The fluctuation in extinction ratio was 1 dB over the bandwidth. Larger group indices produce larger extinction ratios and lower bit error rates.
  • Keywords
    "Modulation","Slow light","Silicon","Bandwidth","Bit error rate","Erbium","Junctions"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375921
  • Filename
    7375921