50-Gb/s silicon optical modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 234-236

  Thomson, David J ^a   Gardes, Frederic Y ^a   Fedeli, Jean Marc ^b   Zlatanovic, Sanja ^c   Hu, Youfang ^a   Kuo, Bill Ping Piu ^c   Myslivets, Evgeny ^c   Alic, Nikola ^c   Radic, Stojan ^c   Mashanovich, Goran Z ^a   Reed, Graham T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed; Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); optical modulator; silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

40 GB/S; CARRIER DEPLETION; DATA RATES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; LOW COSTS; MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL INSERTION LOSS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-BASED MODULATORS;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84863012453     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2177081     Document Type: Article

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