Title :
Wideband slow light effects in 25 Gbps Si photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder modulators
Author :
Yosuke Hinakura;Yosuke Terada;Takuya Tamura;Toshihiko Baba
Author_Institution :
Yokohama Nat´l Univ., 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan
Abstract :
We evaluated wideband 25 Gbps error-free operation of Si slow light modulators. The fluctuation in extinction ratio was 1 dB over the bandwidth. Larger group indices produce larger extinction ratios and lower bit error rates.
Keywords :
"Modulation","Slow light","Silicon","Bandwidth","Bit error rate","Erbium","Junctions"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375921
