• DocumentCode
    712435
  • Title

    Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with >70 GHz electrical bandwidth demonstrating 90 Gbit/s 4-ASK

  • Author

    Heni, W. ; Melikyan, A. ; Haffner, C. ; Fedoryshyn, Y. ; Baeuerle, B. ; Josten, A. ; Niegemann, J. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Kohl, M. ; Elder, D.L. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Hafner, C. ; Leuthold, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electromagn. Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A high-extinction-ratio plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with an electrical bandwidth exceeding 70GHz is demonstrated. The BER is below 4×10-5 and 2×10-2 for a BPSK and 4-ASK signal with line rates of 72Gbit/s and 108Gbit/s, respectively.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; electro-optical modulation; error statistics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical transceivers; phase shift keying; plasmonics; 4-ASK; BER; BPSK; amplitude shift keying; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; bit rate 108 Gbit/s; bit rate 72 Gbit/s; bit rate 90 Gbit/s; electrical bandwidth; high extinction ratio; plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator; Bit error rate; Optical losses; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7121786
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=712435