[WE3] High-Speed Modulators II

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[WE3-2] Comparison of High-Speed Performance between InP-Based Coplanar Strip-Line and Capacitive-Loading Mach-Zehnder Modulators

○Ruoyun Yao¹, Weiwei Pan¹, Yu Cheng¹, Min Gong¹, Jintian Zhu², Chen Ji¹ (¹Zhejiang Univ., ²G-TRON Semiconductor Co., Ltd.)

Keywords:

Optical modulators

This work presents a coplanar strip-line Mach-Zehnder modulator with shallow-etched waveguides, achieving a microwave attenuation of 2.55 dB/mm at 40 GHz and competitive electro-optic bandwidth, outperforming capacitive-loading modulators with a fivefold increase in density.