• DocumentCode
    3677337
  • Title

    A low-power biasing scheme for silicon-on-insulator traveling-wave modulators

  • Author

    Michael Caverley;Han Yun;Lukas Chrostowski;Nicolas A. F. Jaeger

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    141
  • Lastpage
    142
  • Abstract
    We propose a biasing scheme for silicon-on-insulator traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators which eliminates the termination-related DC power consumption due to biasing and we present measurements on a high-speed modulator that uses this scheme.
  • Keywords
    "Electrodes","RF signals","Silicon","Radio frequency","Optical modulation","Junctions"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Group4.2015.7305992
  • Filename
    7305992