Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss

Kieninger, Clemens; Füllner, Christoph; Zwickel, Heiner; Kutuvantavida, Yasar; Kemal, Juned N.; Eschenbaum, Carsten; Elder, Delwin L.; Dalton, Larry R.; Freude, Wolfgang; Randel, Sebastian; Koos, Christian

doi:10.1364/oe.390315

Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss

We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) with low phase-shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 µm-long phase shifters feature a π -voltage-length product of 0.41 Vmm and a loss-efficiency product as small as aU π L = 1.0 VdB. The device perf…