Title :
Low-power-consumption, 40-Gb/s Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator
Author :
Jianfeng Ding ; Ruiqiang Ji ; Lei Zhang ; Lin Yang
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron. & Optoelectron. Syst. Lab., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 2-mm-long carrier-depletion modulator which can work at a speed of 40 Gbps under a differential voltage of 0.36 V with no reverse bias. The power efficiency could be 32.4 fJ/bit.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical modulation; optical waveguides; silicon; Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; carrier depletion modulator; low-power consumption; size 2 mm; voltage 0.36 V;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
