Forty Gb/s hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with low chirp.

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.

Published: January 2011

We demonstrate a hybrid silicon modulator operating up to 40 Gb/s with 11.4 dB extinction ratio. The modulator has voltage-length product of 2.4 V-mm and chirp of -0.75 over the entire bias range. As a switch, it has a switching time less than 20 ps.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.001455DOI Listing

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