Ultralow energy, integrated GeSi electroabsorption modulators on SOI

We report a waveguide-integrated, gigahertz GeSi electroabsorption modulator on SOI with a 10 dB extinction ratio at 1540 nm, a ultralow energy consumption of 50 fJ/bit, and an operation spectrum range of 1539-1553 nm.

[1]  Qianfan Xu,et al.  Micrometre-scale silicon electro-optic modulator , 2005, Nature.

[2]  Dan Song,et al.  A Fully Integrated 4 $\times$ 10-Gb/s DWDM Optoelectronic Transceiver Implemented in a Standard 0.13 $\mu{\hbox {m}}$ CMOS SOI Technology , 2006, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

[3]  L. Sekaric,et al.  Ultra-compact, low RF power, 10 Gb/s silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator. , 2007, Optics express.

[4]  D. Miller,et al.  Strong quantum-confined Stark effect in germanium quantum-well structures on silicon , 2005, Nature.

[5]  David A B Miller,et al.  Optical modulator on silicon employing germanium quantum wells. , 2007, Optics express.

[6]  D. Kucharski,et al.  A Fully Integrated 20-Gb/s Optoelectronic Transceiver Implemented in a Standard 0.13- $\mu{\hbox {m}}$ CMOS SOI Technology , 2006, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

[7]  D. Ahn,et al.  Electronic-photonic integrated circuits on the CMOS platform , 2006, SPIE OPTO.

[8]  Jurgen Michel,et al.  High performance, waveguide integrated Ge photodetectors. , 2007, Optics express.

[9]  Kazumi Wada,et al.  High-performance, tensile-strained Ge p-i-n photodetectors on a Si platform , 2005 .

[10]  Nahum Izhaky,et al.  High-speed optical modulation based on carrier depletion in a silicon waveguide. , 2007, Optics express.

[11]  J. Michel,et al.  Large Electro-Optic Effect in Tensile Strained Ge-on-Si Films , 2006, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006..

[12]  Ludovic Desplanque,et al.  Detection of picosecond electrical pulses using the intrinsic Franz–Keldysh effect , 2001 .

[13]  Qianfan Xu,et al.  12.5 Gbit/s carrier-injection-based silicon micro-ring silicon modulators. , 2007, Optics express.

[14]  R. Soref,et al.  The Past, Present, and Future of Silicon Photonics , 2006, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[15]  Oded Cohen,et al.  Fast silicon optical modulator , 2004, SPIE OPTO.

[16]  R. Soref,et al.  Electrooptical effects in silicon , 1987 .

[17]  Kazumi Wada,et al.  Design of monolithically integrated GeSi electro-absorption modulators and photodetectors on a SOI platform. , 2007, Optics express.

[18]  Michal Lipson,et al.  PINIP based high-speed high-extinction ratio micron-size silicon electrooptic modulator. , 2007, Optics express.