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Compact Silicon Photonics Meandered Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Abstract

We report a C-band compact (100 × 420 µm 2 ) and power efficient (0.9 pJ/bit) SiP meandered Mach-Zehnder modulator with low optical loss (2.09 dB) and demonstrate DAC-less and DSP-free 32 Gbps OOK transmission with Q=6.64 dB.

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Electro-optic modulator Photonics Silicon photonics Transmission (telecommunications) Optoelectronics Modulation (music) Power (physics) Digital signal processing Mach–Zehnder interferometer Optical switch Optical modulator Optics Physics Materials science Electronic engineering Telecommunications Computer science Phase modulation Interferometry Engineering Acoustics

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Photonic and Optical Devices
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Optical Network Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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