Forty Gb/s hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with low chirp
Open Access
- 12 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 19 (2) , 1455-1460
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.19.001455
Abstract
We demonstrate a hybrid silicon modulator operating up to 40 Gb/s with 11.4 dB extinction ratio. The modulator has voltage-length product of 2.4 V-mm and chirp of −0.75 over the entire bias range. As a switch, it has a switching time less than 20 ps.Keywords
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