Low Insertion Loss, High-Speed Silicon Electro-Optic Modulator Design
- 1 January 2006
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
Abstract
A high-speed CMOS-compatible Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator with graded doping profile for minimum optical loss and maximum modulation speed is investigated, with operating frequency 32GHz, low insertion loss of 3dB and low figure of merit V?L=6Vmm.Keywords
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