High-efficiency 25Gb/s CMOS ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning
- 1 September 2011
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
We report a 25Gb/s ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning fabricated in a 130nm CMOS process. With 2Vpp modulation, the optical eye shows >;6dB extinction ratio. Modulation energy is estimated <;24fJ/bit from circuit modeling.Keywords
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