• DocumentCode
    1941700
  • Title

    High-speed silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator with 1.6 fJ/bit and 180 pm/V in-device nonlinearity

  • Author

    Palmer, R. ; Koeber, S. ; Heni, Wolfgang ; Elder, D.L. ; Korn, D. ; Yu, Haoyong ; Alloatti, L. ; Koenig, S. ; Schindler, Philipp C. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Pantouvaki, M. ; Lepage, G. ; Verheyen, P. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; Absil, P. ; Baets, Roel ; Dalton, L.R. ;

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. IPQ & IMT, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    22-26 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report on a 40 Gbit/s silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator with 11 dB extinction ratio. A novel electro-optic chromophore with record in-device nonlinearity of 180 pm/V leads to VπL = 0.5 Vmm and a low energy consumption of 1.6 fJ/bit at 12.5 Gbit/s.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; silicon; SOH modulator; Si; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; electro-optic chromophore; high-speed silicon-organic hybrid modulator; low energy consumption; record in-device nonlinearity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-84919-759-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp.2013.1443
  • Filename
    6647636
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1941700