High-speed silicon photonic electro-optic Kerr modulation  

作　　者：JONATHAN PELTIER WEIWEI ZHANG LEOPOLD VIROT CHRISTIAN LAFFORGUE LUCAS DENIEL DELPHINE MARRIS-MORINI GUY AUBIN FARAH AMAR DENH TRAN XINGZHAO YAN CALLUM G.LITTLEJOHNS CARLOS ALONSO-RAMOS KE LI DAVID J.THOMSON GRAHAM REED LAURENT VIVIEN 

机构地区：[1]University Paris-Saclay,CNRS,Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(C2N),Palaiseau 91120,France [2]University Grenoble Alpes,CEA,LETI,Grenoble 38000,France [3]Optoelectronics Research Centre,Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics,Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences,University of Southampton,Southampton SO171BJ,UK

出　　处：《Photonics Research》2024年第1期51-60,共10页光子学研究（英文版）

基　　金：Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EP/N013247/1,EP/T019697/1);Royal Society(UF150325)。

摘　　要：Silicon-based electro-optic modulators contribute to easing the integration of high-speed and low-power consumption circuits for classical optical communications and data computations.Beyond the plasma dispersion modulation,an alternative solution in silicon is to exploit the DC Kerr effect,which generates an equivalent linear electro-optical effect enabled by applying a large DC electric field.Although some theoretical and experimental studies have shown its existence in silicon,limited contributions relative to plasma dispersion have been achieved in high-speed modulation so far.This paper presents high-speed optical modulation based on the DC Kerr effect in silicon PIN waveguides.The contributions of both plasma dispersion and Kerr effects have been analyzed in different waveguide configurations,and we demonstrated that the Kerr induced modulation is dominant when a high external DC electric field is applied in PIN waveguides.High-speed optical modulation response is analyzed,and eye diagrams up to 80 Gbit/s in NRZ format are obtained under a d.c.voltage of 30 V.This work paves the way to exploit the Kerr effect to generate high-speed Pockels-like optical modulation.

关 键 词：WAVEGUIDE DISPERSION effect 

分 类 号：TN25[电子电信—物理电子学]