High-speed optical modulation based on carrier depletion in a silicon waveguide
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- 22 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 15 (2) , 660-668
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.15.000660
Abstract
We present a high-speed and highly scalable silicon optical modulator based on the free carrier plasma dispersion effect. The fast refractive index modulation of the device is due to electric-field-induced carrier depletion in a Silicon-on-Insulator waveguide containing a reverse biased pn junction. To achieve high-speed performance, a travelling-wave design is used to allow co-propagation of electrical and optical signals along the waveguide. We demonstrate high-frequency modulator optical response with 3 dB bandwidth of ∼20 GHz and data transmission up to 30 Gb/s. Such high-speed data transmission capability will enable silicon modulators to be one of the key building blocks for integrated silicon photonic chips for next generation communication networks as well as future high performance computing applications.Keywords
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