Title :
Silicon photonic Bragg grating modulators
Author :
Xu Wang ; Caverley, Michael ; Flueckiger, Jonas ; Yun Wang ; Jaeger, Nicolas A. F. ; Chrostowski, Lukas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
We report silicon photonic modulators based on Bragg grating cavities with a reverse-biased p-n junction embedded in the grating waveguide. Modulation bandwidths exceeding 10 GHz have been obtained.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical modulation; optical resonators; p-n junctions; silicon; Bragg grating cavities; Si; grating waveguide; modulation bandwidths; reverse-biased p-n junction; silicon photonic modulators; Bragg gratings; Cavity resonators; Fabrication; Gratings; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995312
