High-contrast 40 Gb/s operation of a 500 µm long silicon carrier-depletion slow wave modulator
High-contrast 40 Gb/s operation of a 500 µm long silicon carrier-depletion slow wave modulator
In this Letter, we demonstrate a highly efficient, compact, high-contrast and low-loss silicon slow wave modulator based on a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two 500 µm long slow wave phase shifters. 40 Gb/s operation with 6.6 dB extinction ratio at quadrature and with an on-chip insertion loss of only 6 dB is shown. These results confirm the benefits of slow light as a means to enhance the performance of silicon modulators based on the plasma dispersion effect.
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Brimont, A.
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Thomson, D.J.
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Gardes, F.Y.
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Fédéli, J.M.
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Reed, G.T.
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Martí, J.
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Sanchis, P.
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6 July 2012
Brimont, A.
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Gardes, F.Y.
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Fédéli, J.M.
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Reed, G.T.
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Martí, J.
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Brimont, A., Thomson, D.J., Gardes, F.Y., Fédéli, J.M., Reed, G.T., Martí, J. and Sanchis, P.
(2012)
High-contrast 40 Gb/s operation of a 500 µm long silicon carrier-depletion slow wave modulator.
Optics Letters, 37 (17), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.37.003504).
Abstract
In this Letter, we demonstrate a highly efficient, compact, high-contrast and low-loss silicon slow wave modulator based on a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two 500 µm long slow wave phase shifters. 40 Gb/s operation with 6.6 dB extinction ratio at quadrature and with an on-chip insertion loss of only 6 dB is shown. These results confirm the benefits of slow light as a means to enhance the performance of silicon modulators based on the plasma dispersion effect.
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Published date: 6 July 2012
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A. Brimont
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