A 67 GHz Silicon Slow Light Modulator Using Slow Wave Electrode for Velocity Matching
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Xia, Penghui; Yu, Hui; Zhang, Qiang; Fu, Zhilei; Huang, Qikai; Ning, Nannan; Wei, Zhujun; Jiang, Xiaoqing; Yang, Jianyi
- Source
- 2022 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2022. :1584-1586 Nov, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Microwave measurement
Electrodes
Slow light
Electrooptic modulators
Modulation
Bandwidth
Microwave communication
silicon photonics
slow light
slow wave coplanar waveguide
velocity matching
Direct current (DC) Kerr effect
- Language
We demonstrate a silicon slow light modulator using slow wave coplanar waveguide (SW-CPW) electrode for velocity matching. Measured microwave index of the SW-CPW electrode is ~7, which leads to a bandwidth of 67 GHz.