G Cong, Y Maegami, M Ohno… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) utilizing carrier depletion usually adopt traveling- wave (TW) electrodes for their long phase shifters, which have inherent challenges in …
T Schwabe, C Kress, S Kruse, M Weizel… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A physical model of a forward biased silicon phase shifter (FB-PS) in a 250 nm electronic- photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) BiCMOS technology was developed and fitted to …
M Nazarathy, I Tomkos - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a 'perfect'design for PAM4 Segmented Mach-Zehnder Modulators (SEMZM), featuring a fully linear (uniform) optical DAC (oDAC) staircase (ie, having equi-spaced PAM4 …
S Tanaka, Y Sobu - 2020 European Conference on Optical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-speed all-silicon photonic modulator is a key component for energy-efficient optical transceivers. This talk reviews our bandwidth enhancement technique for an all-silicon …
Y Sobu, S Tanaka, Y Tanaka… - 2020 IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have been developed high-speed, multi-level all-silicon segmented modulator for optical DAC transmitter. The broadband EO response of 42.6~ 43.9 GHz was obtained by passive …
In optical transmitters generating multi-level constellations, optical modulators are preceded by Electronic Digital-to-Analog-Converters (eDAC). It is advantageous to use eDAC-free …