• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 52, Issue 7, 70004 (2015)
Qi ying1,*, An Junming1,2, Wang Yue1, Zhang Jiashun1,2, and Wang Liangliang1,2
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    DOI: 10.3788/lop52.070004 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Qi ying, An Junming, Wang Yue, Zhang Jiashun, Wang Liangliang. Principle and Progress of Silicon-Organic Hybrid Electro-Optic Modulators[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2015, 52(7): 70004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) platform combined with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides and the functional organic nonlinear materials opens a route to highly-speed ultra-compact electro-optic devices. Recently, bandwidth of frequency responses of modulators based on SOH is up to 100 GHz, and enabled operation is up to 112 Gbit/s with an energy consumption of 640 fJ/bit. Main SOH electro-optic modulators, such as the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulator, in-phase/quadrature-phase (IQ) modulator and mcroring-resonator modulator, are introduced. Meanwhile, the design principle, characteristics and research status of the modulators are illustrated.