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Hui-Wen Chen1, Jonathan D Peters, John E Bowers
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. hwchen@ece.ucsb
Optics Express
|January 26, 2011
Abstract:
We demonstrate a hybrid silicon modulator operating up to 40 Gb/s with 11.4 dB extinction ratio. The modulator has voltage-length product of 2.4 V-mm and chirp of -0.75 over the entire bias range. As a switch, it has a switching time less than 20 ps.
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