Beyond 60-Gbit/s Modulation of Impedance Mismatched Silicon MZI Modulator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ciou, Zih-Yuan; Chung, Kuo-Fang; Kao, Shih-Chun; Cheng, Chih-Hsien; Huang, Ding-Wei; Lin, Gong-Ru
- Source
- 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP) Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on. :1-2 Dec, 2021
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Electrodes
PIN photodiodes
Modulation
Transfer functions
Throughput
Silicon
Silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator
traveling-wave electrode
impedance mismatch
- Language
- ISSN
- 1949-209X
By mismatching rear-end electrode impedance of a silicon p-i-n MZI modulator to 68 Ω with on-chip-resistor, the allowable encoding NRZ-OOK data rate greatly increases beyond 60 Gbit/s after performing waveform pre-emphasis.