Broadband, Temperature Tolerant and Passively Biased Resonantly Enhanced Mach-Zehnder Modulators
Abstract
We describe a resonantly enhanced Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) that can be operated over a wide temperature range of 55C without being actively biased, while providing a significant resonant enhancement of 6.8 at the nominal wavelength / temperature compared to a linear MZM driven with a distributed driver. More importantly, it enables a ~20X improvement in power consumption compared to a 50 {\Omega} matched linear traveling wave modulator with comparable phase shifter technology, drive voltage and output optical modulation amplitude. Passive biasing of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is further implemented by replacing a splitter element in the MZM with a novel device combining splitting and fiber coupling functionalities in a single, multi-modal structure, that converts permanent fiber placement into a phase correction. Both concepts are combined in a single modulator device, removing the need for any type of active control in a wide temperature operation range.
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@article{arxiv.1812.03806,
title = {Broadband, Temperature Tolerant and Passively Biased Resonantly Enhanced Mach-Zehnder Modulators},
author = {S. Romero-García and A. Moscoso-Mártir and J. Nojic and S. Sharif-Azadeh and J. Müller and B. Shen and F. Merget and J. Witzens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03806},
year = {2018}
}
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Proc. 2018 Int. IEEE Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS 2018)