• DocumentCode
    1627193
  • Title

    Low drive voltage 10 Gb/s and high contrast 40 Gb/s silicon slow wave modulators

  • Author

    Brimont, A. ; Thomson, D.J. ; Gardes, F.Y. ; Fedeli, J.M. ; Reed, G.T. ; Martí, J. ; Sanchis, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, València, Spain
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    195
  • Lastpage
    197
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the use of slow light to reduce the drive voltage and shrink the footprint of carrier depletion-based silicon modulators. Hence, low drive voltage 10 Gb/s modulation and high contrast 40Gb/s modulation is achieved.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation; silicon-on-insulator; slow light; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; carrier depletion-based silicon modulators; high contrast modulation; high contrast silicon slow wave modulators; low drive voltage silicon slow modulators; slow light; Insertion loss; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Phase shifters; Photonics; Silicon; Slow light; Integrated photonics; silicon modulators; slow light;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0826-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324131
  • Filename
    6324131
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1627193