• DocumentCode
    600647
  • Title

    28 Gb/s silicon microring modulation beyond the linewidth Limit by coupling modulation

  • Author

    Sacher, Wesley D. ; Green, William M. J. ; Assefa, Solomon ; Barwicz, Tymon ; Pan, H. ; Shank, Steven M. ; Vlasov, Yurii A. ; Poon, Joyce K. S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A silicon-on-insulator microring modulator with a linewidth of ~ 7 GHz is operated at 28Gb/s by modulation of the microring-bus waveguide coupler. The modulator was driven with pre-emphasized signals with a maximum swing of 1.5Vpp.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; optical modulation; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Si; bit rate 28 Gbit/s; coupling modulation; microring bus waveguide coupler; silicon microring modulation; silicon-on-insulator microring modulator; Bandwidth; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476472
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=600647