Title
64 Gbps Si photonic crystal slow light modulator by electro-optic phase matching
Abstract
We demonstrate 64 Gbps operation in a compact Si photonic crystal optical modulator that employs meander line electrodes and compensate for the phase mismatch between slow light and RF signals. Although low dispersion slow light increases the modulation efficiency, maintaining a sufficiently wide working spectrum the phase mismatch becomes a limiting factor on the operation speed even when the phase shifter length is as short as 200 mu m. Meander line electrodes broke this limit and enhanced the cutoff frequency by up to 31 and 38 GHz using 50 Omega and 20 Omega termination resistors. respectively. This allowed to use a group index of slow light higher than 20 and greatly improved the quality of the modulation characteristics at 25 and 32 Gbps. Clear open eye was observed even at 40-64 Gbps. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1364/OE.27.014321
OPTICS EXPRESS
Field
DocType
Volume
Optical modulator,Dispersion (optics),Photonic crystal,Optics,Slow light,Modulation,Phase shift module,Cutoff frequency,Optoelectronics,Physics,Phase (waves)
Conference
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1094-4087
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yosuke Hinakura101.01
Hiroyuki Arai24110.53
Toshihiko Baba314.68