
Advanced silicon photonic modulators
Various electrical and optical schemes used in Mach-Zehnder (MZ) silicon plasma dispersion effect modulators are explored. A rib waveguide reverse biased silicon diode modulator is designed, tested
Various electrical and optical schemes used in Mach-Zehnder (MZ) silicon plasma dispersion effect modulators are explored. A rib waveguide reverse biased silicon diode modulator is designed, tested and found to operate at speeds up to 13 GHz with a V"L of 1. Here VM is the differential voltage applied between the two input ports and V is the voltage necessary for phase shift, also called the switching voltage. = and the chirp is ideally zero. =, then we get a purely phase modulated signal and. Abstract—Linearity of Si Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM) is characterized with a newly-proposed modeling technique which includes the influences of the transmission characteristics of traveling-wave (...

Various electrical and optical schemes used in Mach-Zehnder (MZ) silicon plasma dispersion effect modulators are explored. A rib waveguide reverse biased silicon diode modulator is designed, tested

Next-generation optical networks require highly efficient, high-bandwidth optical modulators that are compatible with electronic integrated

Compared to previously reported forward-biased silicon integrated modulators, without active tuning of the power splitting ratio between the arms, the extinction ratio is 10 dB higher.

Silicon-based Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) are being utilized as a fundamental building block in several major photonic integrated circuits, as they can be fabricated using a complementary metal

We expected that forward-biased diodes would provide larger modulation efficiency and comparable propagation loss than reverse-biased

This study focuses on the core component of the traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator (TW-MZM)—the traveling-wave phase shifter, analyzing its internal working principles in depth.

In this paper, an idea is proposed and verified in numerical analysis to realize the significant expansion of modulation bandwidth of the Silicon

The Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) has been widely used for broadband photonic analog links and high-speed digital optical fiber communication systems because it possesses large

A 25Gb/s heterogeneously-integrated Silicon-Photonic transmitter is designed entirely in CMOS, consisting of a high-swing driver wire-bonded to a MZ

In particular, the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) and its influence on the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) are often used for the modulator performance metrics. In this article, we

It is demonstrated that forward bias of a high-speed silicon (Si) optical Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) increases the radio-frequency (RF) link gain by 30 dB when compared to reverse

The evolution of high-speed optical modulators in silicon photonics is crucial for advancing optical communication networks amid growing data demands and expanding data centers. This review

In this work, we tested and compared the silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator before and after in-space radiation exposure. Measured results show minor permanent changes in real and imaginary part of

Hosseini, L. Mirzoyan, and K. Jamshidi, “Energy consumption en- hancement of reverse-biased silicon-based Mach–Zehnder modulators using corrugated slow light waveguides,”IEEE Photon.

We report two monolithically integrated silicon-photonic OEO converters—load-resistor (high-speed variant) and current-injection (high-gain variant) types—fabricated at a silicon photonics

There are many types of modulators available for modulation, this paper will focus on the bias point stabilization method for the MZ modulator (Mach-Zehnder Modulator) the MZ modulator, after the

With the advantages of high speed, small size, and easy integration, the silicon photonic resonant ring modulator has gradually become a critical device for

In particular, silicon (Si) photonics has emerged as a high-potential platform for implementing low-cost and high-performance optical modulators, since its compatibility with complementary metal

A carrier-depletion-based optical modulator implies to embed a PN junction inside a silicon waveguide, and then manipulate the refractive index of the waveguide by reverse biasing the PN junction.

The refractive index of silicon can be changed through the free-carrier plasma dispersion effect where the electron and hole densities change the refractive index Unfortunately, this also changes the

In this paper, we demonstrate a silicon forward-biased positive intrinsic negative (PIN) Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM), which has two operating states of high efficiency and high speed.

In this paper, an idea is proposed and verified in numerical analysis to realize the significant expansion of modulation bandwidth of the Silicon Photonics modulators without increasing

Abstract and Figures The design and characterization of a slow-wave series push-pull traveling wave silicon photonic modulator is presented. At

First, we implemented a deep neural network model to substitute the 3D electromagnetic simulation of a Si-based MZM, whereas subsequently, this model is used to estimate the figure of merit...

Silicon carrier-depletion-based modulators have been demonstrated for different applications by choosing proper doping pattern, waveguide configuration and electrode, including 40 Gbit/s MZ

We have presented a series push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulator for the COBRA generic photonic integration process and detailed its working principle and high-speed electrode design.

Fig. 1: Schematic of the programmable modulator. The embedded high-speed modula-tor can be travelling wave pn modulator, SiGe EAM modulator, microring modulator, and other modulators

Silicon photonic (SiP) platforms provide the opportunity to realize these systems in a compact chip-scale form factor and alleviate long-standing challenges in optoelectronics. In this work, we analyze multi

Intermodulation distortion products are demonstrated to have reverse bias and MZM bias dependencies advantageous for highly linear operation.

The Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator is a widely-used electro-optic modulator, but its operation point drifts with time and temperature, making the modulation performance worse. Therefore, a bias controller is
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