Optimization of efficiency-loss figure of merit in carrier-depletion silicon Mach-Zehnder optical modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 19518-19529

  Goykhman, Ilya ^a   Desiatov, Boris ^a   Ben Ezra, Shalva ^b   Shappir, Joseph ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b II VI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; SILICON;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FIGURE OF MERITS; FREE CARRIERS; FULLY DEPLETED; MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL MODULATOR; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; PER UNIT LENGTH; SILICON CARRIERS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84883235174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019518     Document Type: Article

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