Author:
Liu Junqian,Wissing Aaron,Andrade Hector,Coldren Larry,Buckwalter James F.,Schow Clint L.
Abstract
Silicon traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators are monolithically integrated with tunable inductive terminations for low-power, variable equalization circuits. Equalizing subthreshold forward-biased modulators doubled EO bandwidth for 56 Gbit/s transmission below KP4-FEC thresholds while consuming 360 fJ/bit.