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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 2, 134(2017)

Single-drive high-speed lumped depletion-type modulators toward 10  fJ/bit energy consumption

Xinbai Li1, Fenghe Yang1, Fang Zhong1, Qingzhong Deng1, Jurgen Michel2, and Zhiping Zhou1、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2MIT Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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    Category: Silicon Photonics

    Received: Jan. 4, 2017

    Accepted: Feb. 20, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 26, 2018

    The Author Email: Zhiping Zhou (zjzhou@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000134

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