[TuD3] High-Speed Modulators I

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM JST(5:00 AM - 5:30 AM UTC)Invited

[TuD3-1] High-Efficiency Optical Transmitter IncludingSi Photonic Crystal Slow-Light ModulatorCo-Designed with Driver Amplifier

○Toshihiko Baba¹, Keisuke Kawahara¹ (1. Yokohama National University (Japan))

Compact Si photonic crystal slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator and open collector driver amplifier dramatically improve the optical transmitter. They were co-designed and demonstrated with a total power consumption of 130 mW at 64 Gbps.