20-Gb/s Silicon Optical Modulators for the 2 μm Wavelength Band
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Cao, Wei; Thomson, David J.; Nedeljkovic, Milos; Alam, Shaif-ul; Wang, Junjia; Gardes, Frederic; Reed, Graham T.; Mashanovich, Goran Z.; Littlejohns, Callum G.; Rouifed, Mohamed Said
- Source
- 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP) Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on. :1-2 Aug, 2018
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Modulation
Silicon
Optical fibers
Extinction ratio
Photonics
- Language
- ISSN
- 1949-209X
We demonstrate silicon-on-insulator based high speed modulators working at a wavelength of 1950 nm. The carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder interferometer modulator operates at a data rate of 20 Gbit/s with an extinction ratio of 5.8 dB and modulation efficiency (V π L π ) of 2.68 Vcm at 4 V reverse bias.