Silicon dual-ring modulator

Silicon dual-ring modulator.

A silicon electro-optic modulator based on coupled microring resonators is proposed. The dual-ring modulator has wide optical bandwidth, high extinction ratio and low insertion loss. A simple integrated circuit connecting the two rings allows for fast modulation speed of >40 Gbit/s. This device has both improved optical and electrical performance over a single-ring modulator. The dual-ring modu...

Silicon dual-ring modulator driven by differential signal.

A silicon dual-ring modulator consisting of two serially cascaded rings with embedded PN junctions is driven by a differential signal pair. We show by simulation and experiment that the device has advantages over the single-ring modulator in terms of optical bandwidth, 3-dB modulation bandwidth and bit rate, at the expense of a 1.7-dB increase in the transmission penalty and a twofold increase ...

Silicon Micro-Ring Modulator Modeling

Cascaded uncoupled dual-ring modulator.

We demonstrate, by coherent driving two uncoupled rings in same direction, that the effective photon circulating time in the dual-ring modulator is reduced, with increased modulation quality. The inter-ring detuning-dependent photon dynamics, Q factor, extinction ratio, and optical modulation amplitude of two cascaded silicon ring resonators are studied and compared with that of a single-ring m...

Frequency comb generation in a silicon ring resonator modulator.

We report on the generation of an optical comb of highly uniform in power frequency lines (variation less than 0.7 dB) using a silicon ring resonator modulator. A characterization involving the measurement of the complex transfer function of the ring is presented and five frequency tones with a 10-GHz spacing are produced using a dual-frequency electrical input at 10 and 20 GHz. A comb shape co...