Title :
Wide-bandwidth sub-100 µm Si photonic crystal MZI optical modulators at 10 Gb/s
Author :
Nguyen, Hong C. ; Shinkawa, Mizuki ; Ishikura, Norihiro ; Baba, Toshihiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first sub-100 μm, 10 Gb/s Si MZI optical modulator. Slow-light photonic crystal waveguides enable carrier-depletion, near-error-free modulation in a 90 μm device by a 4.3 Vpp drive signal, with 17 nm bandwidth.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical modulation; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; silicon; slow light; MZI optical modulators; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; carrier-depletion; near-error-free modulation; size 90 mum; slow-light photonic crystal waveguides; wavelength 100 mum; wavelength 17 nm; wide-bandwidth silicon photonic crystal; Bandwidth; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon; Optical Modulators; Photonic Crystal Waveguides; Silicon Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358633
