Title :
Vertical junction silicon microdisk modulators at 25Gb/s
Author :
Timurdogan, Erman ; Sorace-Agaskar, Cheryl M. ; Biberman, A. ; Watts, Michael R.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first vertical junction microdisk modulator to achieve an open eye diagram at 25Gb/s. The result was achieved using a circularly contacted microdisk with a 3μm radius and a 1.2Vpp drive for ~13fJ/bit.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optoelectronics; modulators; silicon; Si; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; circularly contacted microdisk; open eye diagram; size 3 mum; vertical junction microdisk modulator; vertical junction microdisk modulators; voltage 1.2 V; Bit error rate; High-speed optical techniques; Junctions; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
