Triply resonant coupled-cavity electro-optic modulators for RF to optical signal conversion

H Gevorgyan, A Khilo, Y Ehrlichman, MA Popović - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose an on-chip triply resonant electro-optic modulator architecture for RF-to-optical
signal conversion and provide a detailed theoretical analysis of the optimal “circuit-level” …

Resonant optical modulators beyond conventional energy-efficiency and modulation frequency limitations

MA Popović - Integrated photonics research, silicon and …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Modulator designs are proposed that can employ arbitrarily high-Q resonators to
simultaneously achieve high energy efficiency and distortionless modulation at all (low/high) …

Optimal design of a microring cavity optical modulator for efficient RF-to-optical conversion

Y Ehrlichman, A Khilo, MA Popović - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The efficiency of optical sideband generation with a microring resonator modulator as a
function of modulator parameters is studied taking into account the photon dynamics inside …

Efficient coupled-cavity electro-optic modulator on silicon for high carrier frequency, narrowband RF signals

H Gevorgyan, A Khilo, MA Popović - Frontiers in Optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Efficient coupled-cavity electro-optic modulator on silicon for high carrier frequency, narrowband
RF signals Page 1 FW5C.1.pdf Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science © OSA 2019 Efficient …

Optical modulation using anti-crossing between paired amplitude and phase resonators

WMJ Green, MJ Rooks, L Sekaric, YA Vlasov - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
An optical modulator design based upon anti-crossing between coupled silicon microrings
with independent amplitude and phase functionality is presented. The device exhibits over …

Free-spectral-range-free microring-based coupling modulator with integrated contra-directional-couplers

A Mistry, M Hammood, H Shoman, S Lin… - … and Materials XVII, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a FSR-free, MRR-based, coupling modulator
that integrates a bent, grating-based contra-directional-coupler (contra-DC) into a microring …

A high-speed electro-optic triple-microring resonator modulator

J Hong, F Qiu, X Cheng, AM Spring, S Yokoyama - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The coupling intensity modulator based on a triple-microring structure was proposed and
numerically investigated for a high speed and a low bit error ratio (BER) operation. The …

Charge–discharge digital/analog microring modulator with no intrinsic speed limitation

A Kodanev, M Orenstein - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coupling modulation in microring resonators substantiates a compact and high bandwidth
silicon photonics modulation scheme. In this letter, we present large-signal analysis …

Small-signal analysis of microring resonator modulators

B Pile, G Taylor - Optics Express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We derive the frequency-dependent modulation transfer functions for microring resonator
modulators, using a small-signal analysis. Modulation efficiencies are obtained in terms of …

Cavity–Waveguide Coupling Modulation via an Optical Analogue of Superradiance in Microring Arrays

A Tang, R Audhkhasi, A Saxena, V Tara, GH Ahn… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
The limitation on the modulation speed of a cavity-based optical modulator posed by cavity
linewidth can be circumvented by modulating the coupling rate to the cavity. However, most …