An optical modulator design based upon anti-crossing between coupled silicon microrings
with independent amplitude and phase functionality is presented. The device exhibits over …

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) for on-chip interconnect, as a degree of freedom to
enable further scaling the communication capacity, has attracted wide attention. However …

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 …

Electro-optic modulation plays a critical role in implementing space-, power-and spectrally
efficient optical interconnection for high-capacity computing systems. Microring resonators …

We demonstrate optical modulation rates exceeding the conventional cavity linewidth limit
using a silicon coupling modulated microring. Small-signal measurements show coupling …

A dynamic model for the transmission of a microring modulator based on changes in the
refractive index, loss, or waveguide-ring coupling strength is derived to investigate the …

We derive the frequency-dependent modulation transfer functions for microring resonator
modulators, using a small-signal analysis. Modulation efficiencies are obtained in terms of …

A high-Q microring integrated with a dual-2× 2-Mach-Zehnder interferometer coupler is
proposed as a low-chirp, low-distortion, low-drive-power, quadrature modulator capable of …

Silicon microring resonators are proposed to achieve ultrasmall differential quadrature
phase-shift keying modulators and demodulators operated at 20 Gb/s, which may require a …

A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …