Ultra-low-power carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7081-7087

  Ding, Jianfeng ^a   Chen, Hongtao ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Ji, Ruiqiang ^a   Tian, Yonghui ^a   Zhu, Weiwei ^a   Lu, Yangyang ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a   Min, Rui ^a   Yu, Mingbin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DIFFERENTIAL VOLTAGE; DISSIPATED POWER; DOPING CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; FIGURE OF MERITS; MACH-ZEHNDER; MAXIMUM POWER; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; P-TYPE; REFLECTED POWER; SERIES RESISTOR; SLOW DIFFUSION; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84859416459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007081     Document Type: Article

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