Title :
Silicon Photonic Modulator Based on a MOS-Capacitor and a CMOS Driver
Author :
Webster, Mark ; Appel, C. ; Gothoskar, P. ; Sunder, Sanjay ; Dama, Bipin ; Shastri, Kalpendu
Author_Institution :
Cisco Syst., Inc., Allentown, PA, USA
Abstract :
We describe a silicon photonic optical modulator based on a MOS-capacitor and a low power 1V CMOS inverter-based driver IC. In an MZI configuration, this efficient modulator and driver IC combination can produce a 9dB extinction ratio at 28 Gbps, at a wavelength of 1310nm.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; MOS capacitors; driver circuits; elemental semiconductors; invertors; low-power electronics; optical modulation; silicon; CMOS driver; MOS capacitor; MZI configuration; Si; bit rate 28 Gbit/s; low power CMOS inverter; silicon photonic optical modulator; voltage 1 V; wavelength 1310 nm; CMOS integrated circuits; Integrated optics; Inverters; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICs), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
La Jolla, CA
DOI :
10.1109/CSICS.2014.6978577
