Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate cascaded silicon micro-ring modulators as the key component of a WDM interconnection system. We show clean eye-diagrams when each of the four micro-ring modulators is modulated at 4 Gbit/s. We show that optical inter-channel crosstalk is negligible with 1.3-nm channel spacing.

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History
Original Manuscript: June 30, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: September 13, 2006
Revised Manuscript: September 5, 2006
Published: October 2, 2006

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Qianfan Xu, Brad Schmidt, Jagat Shakya, Michal Lipson

Cornell University

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