All-optically linearized silicon modulator with ultrahigh SFDR of 131 dB · Hz<sup>6/7</sup>

Qiang Zhang; Qikai Huang; Penghui Xia; Yan Li; Xingyi Jiang; Shuyue Zhang; Shengyu Fang; Jianyi Yang; Hui Yu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.538014

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 2, 433(2025)

All-optically linearized silicon modulator with ultrahigh SFDR of 131 dB · Hz^6/7

Qiang Zhang1... Qikai Huang2, Penghui Xia2, Yan Li3, Xingyi Jiang2, Shuyue Zhang2, Shengyu Fang2, Jianyi Yang2 and Hui Yu1,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China

²Institute of Integrated Microelectronic Systems, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

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