• DocumentCode
    562180
  • Title

    Integrated CMOS compatible low power 10Gbps silicon photonic heater-modulator

  • Author

    Zortman, William A. ; Lentine, Anthony L. ; Trotter, Douglas C. ; Watts, Michael R.

  • Author_Institution
    Appl. Photonic Microsyst., Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We quantify bit-error performance of a heater-modulator that uses CMOS compatible heater and modulator voltages, occupies 50μm2, is compatible with differential signaling and shows consistent extinction ratio under tuning while consuming only 7μW /GHz.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; silicon; thermo-optical devices; CMOS compatible heater; Si; bit error performance; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; differential signaling; integrated CMOS compatible photonic heater-modulator; low power silicon photonic heater-modulator; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Heating; Modulation; Photonics; Silicon; Tuning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6192228