Title :
CMOS-compatible temperature insensitive silicon microring modulator
Author :
Guha, Biswajeet ; Preston, Kyle ; Lipson, Michal
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a passively temperature stabilized silicon electro-optic modulator, consisting of a ring resonator coupled to a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with tailored mode confinement. We show 2 GHz modulation over 40°C temperature range.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; silicon; CMOS; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; frequency 2 GHz; passively temperature stabilized silicon electro-optic modulator; ring resonator; tailored mode confinement; temperature 40 degC; temperature insensitive silicon microring modulator; Electrooptical waveguides; Modulation; Optical ring resonators; Silicon; Temperature distribution; Temperature sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
