Title :
Ultralow-energy InGaAsP modulators based on a photonic crystal waveguide/nanocavity involving the Franz-Keldysh effect
Author :
Kengo Nozaki;Shinji Matsuo; Abdul; Shakoor;Silviu Dinulescu;Koji Takeda;Takuro Fujii;Eiichi Kuramochi;Masaya Notomi
Author_Institution :
NTT Nanophotonics Center, NTT Corporation, 3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan
Abstract :
Ultrasmall InGaAsP optical modulators were realized using a photonic crystal waveguide/nanocavity with a small-capacitance p-i-n junction and the Franz-Keldysh effect. Eye patterns reaching 56 Gb/s and a record-low charging energy of <;100 aJ/bit were evaluated.
Keywords :
"Modulation","Optical waveguides","Waveguide junctions","Voltage measurement","PIN photodiodes","Photonic crystals"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376528
