108 Gbit/s Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator with > 70-GHz Electrical Bandwidth

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 393-400

  Heni, W ^a   Haffner, C ^a   Baeuerle, B ^a   Fedoryshyn, Y ^a   Josten, A ^a   Hillerkuss, D ^a   Niegemann, J ^a,b   Melikyan, A ^c   Kohl, M ^c   Elder, D L ^d   Dalton, L R ^d   Hafner, C ^a   Leuthold, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Lumerical Solutions   (Canada)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulators; nonlinear optical devices; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MODULATORS; PLASMONS;

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; PLASMONICS; STATIC CHARACTERIZATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84961872499     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2487560     Document Type: Article

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