• DocumentCode
    609073
  • Title

    Adiabatic microring modulators

  • Author

    Biberman, A. ; Timurdogan, Erman ; Watts, Michael R. ; Zortman, W.A. ; Trotter, Douglas C.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-21 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In this work, we demonstrate and experimentally characterize adiabatic microring modulators, the smallest (4-μm-diameter) microring modulators shown to date, yielding 6.92-THz uncorrupted free spectral ranges. We demonstrate and quantify operation up to 12.5-Gb/s data rates.
  • Keywords
    integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; adiabatic modulators; frequency 6.92 THz; microring modulators; size 4 mum; uncorrupted free spectral ranges; High-speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Silicon photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0457-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6533213