Compact Electro-Optic Modulator on Silicon-on-Insulator Substrates using Cavities with Ultra-Small Modal Volumes

We experimentally demonstrate an electro-optic modulator using a high-index-contrast silicon Fabry-Perot resonator. This compact high-speed device is a 1-D integrated cavity, only 4.5 lambda/n in length with an embedded p-i-n junction on a silicon-on-insulator platform

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