Title :
Hybrid electro-refraction and electro-absorption modulators on silicon
Author :
Tang, Yongbo ; Chen, Hui-Wen ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate high speed electro-refraction and electro-absorption modulators on the hybrid silicon platform. These modulators use distributed electrodes and have good performance for bit rates up to 40 Gb/s or more.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; silicon; electro-absorption modulators; hybrid electro-refraction; hybrid silicon; Bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Photonics; Quantum well devices; Hybrid silicon platform; Photonic integrated circuits; waveguide modulators;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8338-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053815
