• DocumentCode
    1779218
  • Title

    A low-voltage PAM-4 SOI ring-based modulator

  • Author

    Hai, Mohammed Shafiqul ; Fard, Monireh Moayedi Pour ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-16 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    194
  • Lastpage
    195
  • Abstract
    A novel modulator for PAM-4 designed on a silicon on insulator (SOI) platform generates a clear four level eye diagram. The forward biased modulator is driven with a 120 mVpp electrical signal without pre-emphasis at 120 Mb/s.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical modulation; pulse amplitude modulation; silicon-on-insulator; PAM-4 SOI; Si; bit rate 120 Mbit/s; pulse amplitude modulation; ring-based modulator; silicon on insulator; voltage 120 mV; Optical device fabrication; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995314
  • Filename
    6995314
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1779218