Silicon-on-insulator free-carrier injection modulators for the mid-infrared.

Autor: Nedeljkovic M, Littlejohns CG, Khokhar AZ, Banakar M, Cao W, Penades JS, Tran DT, Gardes FY, Thomson DJ, Reed GT, Wang H, Mashanovich GZ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2019 Feb 15; Vol. 44 (4), pp. 915-918.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.000915
Abstrakt: Experimental demonstrations of silicon-on-insulator waveguide-based free-carrier effect modulators operating at 3.8 μm are presented. PIN diodes are used to inject carriers into the waveguides, and are configured to (a) use free-carrier electroabsorption to create a variable optical attenuator with 34 dB modulation depth and (b) use free-carrier electrorefraction with the PIN diodes acting as phase shifters in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, achieving a V π L π of 0.052  V·mm and a DC modulation depth of 22 dB. Modulation is demonstrated at data rates up to 125 Mbit/s.
Databáze: MEDLINE