Foundry process variations can introduce parameter fluctuations that can adversely affect the modulation efficiency and bandwidth. This application note explores how some of the The Challenge Although SiPh TW-MZ
traveling wave electrodeWe present the monolithic integrated widely tunable V-cavity laser and traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator operating in the C-band. A wide wavelength tuning of 64 channels from 1513 nm to 1565 nm is obtained with SMSRs mostly over 40 dB. The $ext{V}_{\\\pi }$ ...
We report the design, fabrication, and testing of a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator on a GaAs substrate. Operating at 870-nm wavelength, we obtained an extremely low driving voltage of 0.45 V and a high measurement-instrument-limited small-signal modulation bandwidth of 18 GHz, projected ...
traveling waveWe present multi-parameter optimization of a shallow ridge InP-based traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) for ultra-wide modulation bandwidth by velocity and impedance matching and microwave attenuation minimization. Relationship between MZM microwave loss and p-cladding layer doping ...
A distributed traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator driver having a plurality of modulation stages that operate cooperatively (in-phase) to provide a signal suitable for use in a 100 Gb/s optical fiber transmitter at power levels that are compatible with conventional semiconductor devices and ...
Disclosed herein are architectures for low power, low voltage traveling wave Mach-Zehnder optical modulators. By combining single-ended series push-pull modulator configurations with differential dual-drive modulator configurations, the advantages of each type may be utilized. In particular, the halved ...
S,Wu B. Y.Calculation of the half-wave voltage of a traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator by the finite element method. Microwave Conference Proceedings, Asia-Pacific . 1997Kwok Wah Hui et al. "Calculation of the half-wave voltage of a traveling-wave Macb-Zehnder modulator by...
The work presented in this thesis uses the silicon photonic platform to realize an integrated Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) suitable for datacenter communication links.A series push-pull traveling wave MZM is designed using T-shaped extensions to increase the microwave index. The modulator is designed...
Silicon traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator under distributed-bias driving.doi:10.1364/ol.43.000403Guangwei CongMorifumi OhnoYuriko MaegamiMakoto OkanoKoji YamadaOptical Society of AmericaOptics Letters
We propose a simple and effective model to properly design the monolithically integrated tunable optical transmitter based on the traveling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator (TW-MZM) and V-cavity laser (VCL). Firstly, the integrated structure of TW-MZM and VCL is presented. Then we put forward a TW...