High-efficiency 25Gb/s CMOS ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning

High-efficiency 25Gb/s CMOS ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning

Glenn Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Jin Yao, Hiren Thacker, Ivan Shubin, Ying Luo, Kannan Raj, John Cunningham, Ashok Krishnamoorthy

04 April 2011

We report a 25Gb/s ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning fabricated in a 130nm CMOS process. With 2Vpp modulation, the optical eye shows >6dB extinction ratio. Modulation energy is estimated <24fJ/bit from circuit modeling.


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