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An efficient MOS-capacitor based silicon modulator and CMOS drivers for optical transmitters

Mark Webster, Prakash Gothoskar, Vipul J. Patel, D. Piede, Sean P. Anderson, Ravi S. Tummidi, Donald Adams, Craig Appel, Peter Metz, S. Sunder,

2014 · 57 citations · 5 references

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Concepts

EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptoelectronicsPhotonicsSemiconductor DevicesCmos Circuit DesignIntegrated Circuit DesignMos CapacitorsOptical Communication SystemsOptical ModulationOptical ModulatorsCmos Inverter DesignExtinction RatioIntegrated Optical ModulatorsLow-power Cmos DesignModulator DesignOptical TransmittersSiliconSilicon Optical Modulation

Abstract

We present an efficient MOS-capacitor based silicon modulator. In an MZI configuration, a 9dB extinction ratio at 28 Gbps is achieved from the 1V output of a low-power CMOS inverter driver IC.

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