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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of OMA Penalty by Inter-Arm Imbalance in Mach-Zehnder Silicon Optical Modulators Tadashi Murao, Jun Ushida, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Masatoshi Tokushima, Akemi Shiina, Tsuyoshi Horikawa (PETRA) OCS2021-19 OPE2021-39 LQE2021-18 |
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In this paper, an inter-arm imbalance and its impact on the optical modulation amplitude (OMA) are investigated for carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder (MZ) silicon optical modulators. First, we propose a generalized form of the large-signal modulation efficiency (ME) that takes the nonlinear response to the voltages into account. It is revealed that this beneficial expression can serve as characterizing the inter-arm imbalance effectively and that the imbalance causes a push-pull imbalance. A beneficial quantification of the imbalance is proposed, namely, a push-pull-imbalanced penalty (PPIP), which is associated with the impact on device performance. The evaluation of the PPIP is demonstrated for the fabricated modulators on a 300-mm SOI wafer. The validity of the derivation is also confirmed by establishing a wafer-level fully-automated evaluation technique for the extinction ratio. Then, it is shown that another inter-arm imbalance also causes an OMA penalty in terms of the absorption loss and is quantified, namely, an absorption-loss-imbalanced penalty (ALIP). In order to evaluate this, we establish a methodology to measure the absorption loss in each arm separately without exploiting any special test element groups (TEGs). |
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Wafer-level testing / Silicon modulator / Modulation efficiency / Optical modulation amplitude / / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 121, no. 214, OPE2021-39, pp. 33-38, Oct. 2021. |
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OPE2021-39 |
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2021-10-15 (OCS, OPE, LQE) |
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Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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2021-10-22 - 2021-10-22 |
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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of OMA Penalty by Inter-Arm Imbalance in Mach-Zehnder Silicon Optical Modulators |
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Wafer-level testing |
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Silicon modulator |
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Modulation efficiency |
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Optical modulation amplitude |
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1st Author's Name |
Tadashi Murao |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
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Jun Ushida |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
3rd Author's Name |
Hiroyuki Takahashi |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
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Masatoshi Tokushima |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
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Akemi Shiina |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
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Tsuyoshi Horikawa |
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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) |
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Date Time |
2021-10-22 16:55:00 |
Presentation Time |
25 minutes |
Registration for |
OPE |
Paper # |
OCS2021-19, OPE2021-39, LQE2021-18 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.121 |
Number (no) |
no.213(OCS), no.214(OPE), no.215(LQE) |
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pp.33-38 |
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6 |
Date of Issue |
2021-10-15 (OCS, OPE, LQE) |