Title :
Characterization of the chirp of silicon optical modulators
Author :
Sheng Liu ; Thomson, David J. ; Gardes, Frederic Y. ; Fedeli, J.-M. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Reed, Graham T.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
The chirp of a fast silicon optical modulator is characterized in this paper. Two diagnostic methods, frequency resolved optical gating and optical modulation analysis, are employed respectively. We demonstrate that the output of silicon optical modulators have very small intrinsic chirp across the modulated pulses.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; silicon; Si; frequency resolved optical gating; intrinsic chirp; modulated pulses; optical modulation; silicon optical modulators; Chirp; High-speed optical techniques; Optical imaging; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
