Title :
40 Gb/s thermally tunable CMOS ring modulator
Author :
Li, Guoliang ; Zheng, Xuezhe ; Thacker, Hiren ; Yao, Jin ; Luo, Ying ; Shubin, Ivan ; Raj, Kannan ; Cunningham, John E. ; Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V.
Author_Institution :
Oracle Labs., San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report a high-contrast 40Gb/s ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning fabricated in a 130nm CMOS process. Under 2V modulation, its optical eyes showed extinction ratios of 7dB at 40Gb/s and 2.3dB at 44Gb/s.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; electro-optical modulation; optical fabrication; optical interconnections; thermo-optical devices; CMOS process; CMOS ring modulator; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 44 Gbit/s; extinction ratios; optical eyes; size 130 nm; thermal tuning; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Tuning;
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/GROUP4.2012.6324190
