High speed silicon photonic crystal waveguide modulator for low voltage operation

被引：123

作者：

Gu, Lanlan ^{[1
]}

Jiang, Wei ^{[1
]}

Chen, Xiaonan ^{[1
]}

Wang, Li ^{[1
]}

Chen, Ray T. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Texas, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Microelect Res Ctr, Austin, TX 78758 USA

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2007年 / 90卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.2475580

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

A high speed compact silicon modulator is experimentally demonstrated to work at a low driving voltage desirable for on-chip applications. As carrier injection is the only practical option for optical modulation in silicon, a lower limit of current density (similar to 10(4) A/cm(2)) exists for achieving gigahertz modulation in the p-i-n diode configuration. Exploiting the slow group velocity of light in photonic crystal waveguides, the interaction length of this Mach-Zehnder interferometer-type silicon modulator is reduced significantly compared to conventional modulators. The required high current density is achieved with a low voltage (2 V) by scaling down the interaction length to 80 mu m. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

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