High speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator

Opt Express. 2005 Apr 18;13(8):3129-35. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.003129.

Abstract

We demonstrate a silicon modulator with an intrinsic bandwidth of 10 GHz and data transmission from 6 Gbps to 10 Gbps. Such unprecedented bandwidth performance in silicon is achieved through improvements in material quality, device design, and driver circuitry.