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 …

On power consumption of silicon-microring-based optical modulators

T Ye, X Cai - Journal of lightwave technology, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Silicon microring resonator has been recognized as a competitive structure for the electro-
optic modulator due to its potential for high-density integration. There are two silicon-ring …

Silicon microring-based signal modulation for chip-scale optical interconnection

L Zhang, Y Li, M Song, JY Yang, RG Beausoleil… - Applied Physics A, 2009 - Springer
Electro-optic modulation plays a critical role in implementing space-, power-and spectrally
efficient optical interconnection for high-capacity computing systems. Microring resonators …

Nonlinear distortion in a silicon microring-based electro-optic modulator for analog optical links

M Song, L Zhang, RG Beausoleil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze silicon microring modulators for analog signal generation, in terms of harmonic
and intermodulation distortions. Free carrier plasma dispersion effect in silicon, Lorentzian …

Silicon-based microring resonator modulators for intensity modulation

L Zhang, Y Li, JY Yang, M Song… - IEEE Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We numerically analyze the characteristics of silicon-based microring modulators consisting
of a single-ring resonator. Performance of the devices as digital intensity modulators is …

A hybrid cmos photonic 25gbps microring transmitter with a-0.5–1.2 v direct-coupled drive

S Mishra, MJ Shawon, A Dorzhigulov… - … Symposium on Circuits …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microring modulators integrated in silicon photonic technology platform have evolved to offer
much higher energy-efficiency than the conventional Mach Zehnder modulators. This allows …

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 …

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 …

High speed silicon microring modulator employing dynamic intracavity energy balance

Y Li, LS Stewart, PD Dapkus - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
High speed coupling-modulation of a microring-based light drop structure is proposed,
which removes severe signal distortion due to intracavity energy depletion and separates …

Silicon dual-ring modulator

Q Xu - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
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 …