Title :
Generating spectral-efficient duobinary data format from silicon ring resonator modulators
Author :
Zhang, Lin ; Song, Muping ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Peng, Wei-Ren ; Nuccio, Scott ; Beausolei, R.G. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
Two types of ultra-small silicon microring-based duobinary modulators are proposed and compared. Required drive voltage is as low as 0.77 volt. at 10 Gb/s. Extinction ratio is > 15 dB.
Keywords :
cavity resonators; micromechanical resonators; modulators; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; extinction ratio; ring resonator modulators; spectral-efficient duobinary data format; Bandwidth; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Resonator filters; Signal generators; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729212
