Title :
Microring modulator using drop-port phase interference
Author :
Caverley, Michael ; Jayatilleka, Hasitha ; Yun Wang ; Chrostowski, Lukas ; Jaeger, Nicolas A. F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
We present a modulator design where two microring modulators are incorporated into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and show that its extinction ratio and insertion loss can be tuned while staying at a fixed input wavelength.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; micro-optics; optical losses; optical modulation; optical tuning; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; drop-port phase interference; extinction ratio; fixed input wavelength; insertion loss; microring modulator; modulator design; tuning; Couplings; Erbium; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Phase modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995289
