Title :
64 Gb/s silicon QPSK modulator with single-drive push-pull traveling wave electrodes
Author :
Haike Zhu ; Linjie Zhou ; Tao Wang ; Lei Liu ; Chi Yan Wong ; Yanyang Zhou ; Jinting Wang ; Qianqian Wu ; Anbang Xie ; Rui Yang ; Zuxiang Li ; Xinwan Li ; Jianping Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a silicon QPSK modulator consisting of two nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers with 3.5 mm long traveling-wave electrodes. 64 Gb/s QPSK modulation is achieved with an EVM of 24.4% and power consumption of 7.1 pJ/bit.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical communication equipment; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Si; silicon QPSK modulator; single-drive push-pull traveling wave electrodes; size 3.5 mm; High-speed optical techniques; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Phase shift keying; Phase shifters; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
