DocumentCode
2094446
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
fYear
2012
fDate
7-10 Nov. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location
Guangzhou
ISSN
2162-108X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-6274-0
Type
conf
Filename
6510819
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