Title :
Hybrid silicon and lithium niobate racetrack modulator with large spurious free dynamic range
Author :
Li Chen ; Jiahong Chen ; Nagy, Jonathan T. ; Reano, Ronald M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
We present a hybrid silicon and LiNbO3 racetrack modulator with spurious free dynamic range of 98.1 dB·Hz2/3 at 1 GHz, which is comparable to a packaged LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder modulator biased at quadrature.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; lithium compounds; silicon; Si-LiNbO3; hybrid racetrack modulator; large spurious free dynamic range; packaged LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder modulator; Linearity; Lithium niobate; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA