Characterization and Tests of Different Mach-Zehnder Silicon Photonic Modulator Configurations
Davide Badoni, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Mauro Casalboni, Fabio De Matteis, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Luca Frontini, Roberto Gunnella, Valentino Liberali, Andreas Mai, Giovanni Paoluzzi, Paolo Prosposito, Andrea Salamon, Gaetano Salina, Fausto Sargeni, Sigurd Schrader, Alberto Stabile, Patrick Steglich
Abstract. We designed and produced an integrated silicon photonic circuit, in a single chip with IHP SG25H4_EPIC 0.25 µm technology. A Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an alternative shape for better integration, together with a standard-shape Mach-Zehnder interferometer have been realized. In this work, preliminary results of comparative performance measurements between the two Mach-Zehnder interferometer are shown.
Keywords
CMOS, Mach-Zehnder, VLSI
Published online 2/25/2020, 5 pages
Citation: Davide Badoni, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Mauro Casalboni, Fabio De Matteis, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Luca Frontini, Roberto Gunnella, Valentino Liberali, Andreas Mai, Giovanni Paoluzzi, Paolo Prosposito, Andrea Salamon, Gaetano Salina, Fausto Sargeni, Sigurd Schrader, Alberto Stabile, Patrick Steglich, Characterization and Tests of Different Mach-Zehnder Silicon Photonic Modulator Configurations, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 16, pp 1-5, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900710-1
Part of the book on Photonics and Photoactive Materials
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