Title :
Low-power-consumption, high speed Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator for CMOS compatible integration
Author :
Ding, Jianfeng ; Chen, Hongtao ; Yang, Lin ; Zhang, Lei ; Ji, Ruiqiang ; Tian, Yonghui ; Zhu, Weiwei ; Lu, Yangyang ; Zhou, Ping ; Min, Rui
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron. & Optoelectron. Syst. Lab., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 2-mm-long carrier-depletion modulator which can work at a speed of 40 Gbps under a differential voltage of 0.36 V with no reverse bias. The power efficiency could be 49 fJ/bit.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; low-power electronics; optical modulation; silicon; CMOS compatible integration; carrier-depletion modulator; high speed Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator; low-power-consumption; size 2 mm; Electrodes; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0826-8
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324168
