Silicon-on-Insulator Modulators Using a Quarter-Wave Phase-Shifted Bragg Grating

We demonstrate, on the silicon-on-insulator platform, a modulator that uses a quarter-wave phase-shifted Bragg grating resonator. The modulator has open eye diagrams at data rates of up to 32 Gb/s. A bit error ratio of less than 10-10 is demonstrated using a 231 - 1 pseudorandom binary sequence pattern at a data rate of 25 Gb/s.

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