1. A 25 Gb/s 400 fJ/bit silicon traveling-wave modulator
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Tsung-Yang Liow, Selin H. G. Teo, Poshen Lee, Matthew Streshinsky, Guo-Qiang Lo, Yang Liu, Nicholas C. Harris, Ran Ding, Ali Ayazi, Michael Hochberg, Thierry Pinguet, Tom Baehr-Jones, Yi Zhang, and Andy Eu-Jin Lim
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Physics ,Bit (horse) ,Optics ,Silicon ,chemistry ,business.industry ,Traveling wave ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Energy consumption ,business ,Ring (chemistry) ,Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry - Abstract
We present a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator operates at 25 Gb/s with 1 V pp . The 400 fJ/bit energy consumption is a 10× improvement over the best reported values in silicon Mach-Zehnders, becoming competitive with ring modulators.
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- 2012
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