Title :
Vertical junction silicon microdisk modulator with integrated thermal tuner
Author :
Timurdogan, Erman ; Sorace-Agaskar, Cheryl M. ; Hosseini, Ehsan S. ; Leake, Gerald ; Coolbaugh, Douglas D. ; Watts, Michael R.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate an approach to integrate the most efficient thermal tuner (4.9-μW/GHz) into a microdisk modulator without sacrificing junction area for the first time. The 6-um diameter modulator achieves low-power (11-fJ/bit) and high-speed (13-Gb/s) operation.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical modulation; optical tuning; silicon; Si; bit rate 13 Gbit/s; high-speed operation; integrated thermal tuner; low-power operation; size 6 mum; vertical junction silicon microdisk modulator; Heating; Insertion loss; Junctions; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Tuning; Voltage measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
