Title :
High-speed, low-power optical modulators in silicon
Author :
Leuthold, Juerg ; Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Alloatti, L. ; Palmer, R. ; Korn, D. ; Pfeifle, J. ; Lauermann, M. ; Dinu, R. ; Wehrli, Silvan ; Jazbinsek, M. ; Gunter, P. ; Waldow, M. ; Wahlbrink, Thorsten ; Bolten, Jens ; Fournier, M. ; Fedeli, J.M. ; Bogaert
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electromagn. Fields (IFH), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Silicon modulators are maturing and it is anticipated that they are going to substitute state-of-the art modulators. We review current silicon modulator approaches and then discuss the silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) approach in more detail. The SOH approach has recently enabled the operation with an energy consumption of 60 fJ/bit and demonstrated the generation of up to 112 Gbit/s per polarization in a compact silicon modulator of 1.5 mm length.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; light polarisation; low-power electronics; modulators; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; silicon; SOH approach; Si; energy consumption; high-speed low-power optical modulator; polarization; silicon-organic hybrid approach; size 1.5 mm; Electrooptical waveguides; Integrated optics; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Photonics; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2013.6603001
