• DocumentCode
    3060196
  • Title

    Athermal Sub-100 μm Si photonic crystal optical modulator

  • Author

    Nguyen, Huan C. ; Yazawa, Naoya ; Hashimoto, Shuji ; Baba, Toshihiko

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate athermal operation at 10 Gb/s, across 19-124°C, in a 90 μm Si photonic crystal optical modulator. This is enabled by low-dispersion slow-light and the resulting 17.9 nm spectral operating bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; optical dispersion; optical modulation; photonic crystals; silicon; slow light; Si; athermal operation; athermal photonic crystal optical modulator; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; low-dispersion slow-light; size 90 mum; spectral operating bandwidth; temperature 19 degC to 124 degC; Bandwidth; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Photonic crystals; Silicon; Temperature distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600261
  • Filename
    6600261