• DocumentCode
    689138
  • Title

    Vertical junction silicon microdisk modulator with integrated thermal tuner

  • Author

    Timurdogan, Erman ; Sorace-Agaskar, Cheryl M. ; Hosseini, Ehsan S. ; Leake, Gerald ; Coolbaugh, Douglas D. ; Watts, Michael R.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an approach to integrate the most efficient thermal tuner (4.9-μW/GHz) into a microdisk modulator without sacrificing junction area for the first time. The 6-um diameter modulator achieves low-power (11-fJ/bit) and high-speed (13-Gb/s) operation.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical modulation; optical tuning; silicon; Si; bit rate 13 Gbit/s; high-speed operation; integrated thermal tuner; low-power operation; size 6 mum; vertical junction silicon microdisk modulator; Heating; Insertion loss; Junctions; Modulation; Optical waveguides; Tuning; Voltage measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833520
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=689138