Title :
Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with >70 GHz electrical bandwidth demonstrating 90 Gbit/s 4-ASK
Author :
Heni, W. ; Melikyan, A. ; Haffner, C. ; Fedoryshyn, Y. ; Baeuerle, B. ; Josten, A. ; Niegemann, J. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Kohl, M. ; Elder, D.L. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Hafner, C. ; Leuthold, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electromagn. Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
A high-extinction-ratio plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with an electrical bandwidth exceeding 70GHz is demonstrated. The BER is below 4×10-5 and 2×10-2 for a BPSK and 4-ASK signal with line rates of 72Gbit/s and 108Gbit/s, respectively.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; electro-optical modulation; error statistics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical transceivers; phase shift keying; plasmonics; 4-ASK; BER; BPSK; amplitude shift keying; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; bit rate 108 Gbit/s; bit rate 72 Gbit/s; bit rate 90 Gbit/s; electrical bandwidth; high extinction ratio; plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator; Bit error rate; Optical losses; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
