Analytical modeling for ultra-high-speed microring modulators with electrical and optical dynamics
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Dube-Demers, Raphael; St-Yves, Jonathan; Bois, Antoine; Zhong, Qiuhang; Caverley, Michael; Wang, Yun; Chrostowski, Lukas; LaRochelle, Sophie; Plant, David V.; Shi, Wei
- Source
- 2014 The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical modulation
Silicon
Analytical models
High-speed optical techniques
Optical ring resonators
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
We propose an analytical, time-domain model for microring modulators, which encompasses pn-junction and resonator dynamics. It shows excellent agreement with experiment for high frequency operation beyond 20 GHz. Pulse-amplitude modulation is predicted for up to 80 Gb/s.