Forty Gb/s hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with low chirp

Hui-Wen Chen; Jonathan D Peters; John E Bowers

doi:10.1364/OE.19.001455

Forty Gb/s hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with low chirp

Opt Express. 2011 Jan 17;19(2):1455-60. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.001455.

Authors

Hui-Wen Chen¹, Jonathan D Peters, John E Bowers

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. hwchen@ece.ucsb

PMID: 21263687
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001455

Abstract

We demonstrate a hybrid silicon modulator operating up to 40 Gb/s with 11.4 dB extinction ratio. The modulator has voltage-length product of 2.4 V-mm and chirp of -0.75 over the entire bias range. As a switch, it has a switching time less than 20 ps.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Microwaves
Refractometry / instrumentation*
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
Silicon / chemistry*
Telecommunications / instrumentation*

Substances

Silicon