High-Speed Optical Modulation Based on Pockels Effect in Strained Silicon Waveguides
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lafforgue, Christian; Berciano, Mathias; Deniel, Lucas; Marcaud, Guillaume; Le Roux, Xavier; Alonso-Ramos, Carlos; Benedikovic, Daniel; Vakarin, Vladyslav; Ruiz-Caridad, Alicia; Crozat, Paul; Marris-Morini, Delphine; Cassan, Eric; Vivien, Laurent
- Source
- 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2020
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Silicon
Optical modulation
Electrooptical waveguides
Photonics
Electrooptic effects
- Language
We report on the first demonstration of high-speed optical modulation exploiting Pockels effect in strained silicon waveguides. Bandwidths larger than 20 GHz and low insertion loss have been achieved at a wavelength of 1550 nm.