Demonstration of V Reduction in Electrooptic Modulators Using Modulation Instability

Reduction in the operating voltage of electrooptic modulators is needed, in order to remove the bottleneck in the flow of data between electronics and optical interconnects. We report an experimental demonstration of a tenfold reduction in an electrooptic modulator's half-wave voltage up to 50...

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Published in:IEEE photonics journal 2014-10, Vol.6 (5), p.1-9
Main Authors: Borlaug, David, DeVore, Peter T. S., Rostami, Ali, Boyraz, Ozdal, Jalali, Bahram
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitude modulation
Electric potential
Electronics
Electrooptic modulators
Electrooptics
Modulation
Modulators
Noise
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical interconnects
Reduction
Voltage
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Summary:Reduction in the operating voltage of electrooptic modulators is needed, in order to remove the bottleneck in the flow of data between electronics and optical interconnects. We report an experimental demonstration of a tenfold reduction in an electrooptic modulator's half-wave voltage up to 50 GHz. This was achieved by employing optical sideband-only amplification.
ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352626