Fast and compact silicon photonic crystal modulator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Nguyen, Hong C.; Nakano, Yuya; Shinkawa, Mizuki; Ishikuia, Norihiro; Baba, Toshihiko
- Source
- CLEO: 2011 - Laser Science to Photonic Applications Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2011
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Silicon
Optical device fabrication
Optical modulation
Optical fibers
Erbium
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-8989
We demonstrate 5 Gbps modulation in a 200 μm-length photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder modulator, fabricated using CMOS processes. V л L < 0.029 V. cm was observed under DC operation. RF modulation was performed at 2.2 V peak-to-peak.