Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 51, Issue 11, 110009(2014)
Recent Progress on Research and Development of Electro-optical Modulators on Silicon Substrates
Due to its great achievements over the last few years, silicon photonics is now a focused topic in many conferences and forums. Among the key photonic blocks, an optical modulator based on a silicon substrate is one of the most attractive issues for scientists and engineers. According to the reported state-of-art experimental results, silicon based optical modulators have perfect operation speed (no less than 50 Gbit/s), low power consumption (no more than 40 fJ/bit) and small footprint (no more than 100 mm2). Till now, the most recent tested data rate reaches 60 Gbit/s. More research and development focuse on higher energy efficiency and higher integration density, which are required by optical communication, optical interconnect and optical sensing, to build information infrastructures with ultra-large bandwidth, much high density and very-big data.
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[in Chinese], [in Chinese], [in Chinese], Nemkova Anastasia. Recent Progress on Research and Development of Electro-optical Modulators on Silicon Substrates[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2014, 51(11): 110009
Category: Reviews
Received: Apr. 27, 2014
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Published Online: Nov. 7, 2014
The Author Email: (lizhy@semi.ac.cn)