• DocumentCode
    2403317
  • Title

    Extremely low Vπ×L slow light photonic crystal modulator with GHz bandwidth

  • Author

    Xu, Xiaochuan ; Hosseini, Amir ; Subbaraman, Harish ; Lin, Che-Yun ; Rahimi, Somayeh ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Microelectron. Res. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-23 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    133
  • Lastpage
    134
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated a GHz bandwidth slow light photonic crystal waveguide based PIN Mach-Zehnder modulator with Vπ×L as low as 0.0464 V mm, which is the lowest figure of merit reported so far.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; PIN Mach-Zehnder modulator; figure of merit; slow light photonic crystal modulator; slow light photonic crystal waveguide; Bandwidth; Couplers; Dispersion; Optical modulation; Photonic crystals; Slow light; Mach-Zehnder modulator; photonic crystal; slow light;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Interconnects Conference, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Fe, NM
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1620-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OIC.2012.6224410
  • Filename
    6224410
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2403317