Title :
Demonstration of Quasi Mach-Zehnder optical modulator based on perfectly vertical fiber grating coupler
Author :
Zanyun Zhang ; Beiju Huang ; Zan Zhang ; Chuantong Cheng ; Hongda Chen
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrated a novel optical modulator based on perfectly vertical grating coupler. The device exhibits low insertion loss of 5.4dB and on-off extinction ratio more than 20dB. Data transmission at 10Gb/s and 12.5Gb/s was demonstrated.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; diffraction gratings; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre couplers; optical losses; optical modulation; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s; data transmission; insertion loss; loss 5.4 dB; on-off extinction ratio; perfectly vertical fiber grating coupler; quasiMach-Zehnder optical modulator; High-speed optical techniques; Modulation; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5803-3
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2013.6644451
