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A Compact, Low-Drive-Voltage Mach-Zehnder Modulator Using Serially-Coupled Rings

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Abstract

A novel, low-drive-voltage, and compact modulator using serially-coupled ring resonators in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) linearly reduces the modulator's energy consumption as the number of rings in the chain increases. Such an MZI with three serially-coupled rings is invested for typical silicon photonics platforms.

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© 2021 IEEE. The authors would like to thank Behrooz Abiri and Reza Fatemi for their valuable discussion on integrated silicon photonics modulators.

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113046
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10.1109/GFP51802.2021.9673938 (DOI)

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