[WE3] High-Speed Modulators II

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM JST(6:45 AM - 7:00 AM UTC)

[WE3-5] High-speed Silicon-Organic Hybrid Modulators with Ladder-Slot Waveguides

○Shunsuke Abe¹, Atsushi Seki¹, Hirokazu Sanpei², Toshiki Yamada³, Takahiro Kaji³, Akira Otomo³, Hideo Hara¹, Shin Masuda¹ (1.Advantest laboratories Ltd., 2.Advantest Component, Inc., 3.National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

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Optical modulators

We designed silicon photonic modulators with electro-optic polymer embedded silicon ladder-slot waveguides, which have an EO bandwidth of 86 GHz. The V_πL and eye-opening of the fabricated device are 2.5 Vmm and 56 Gbps, respectively.