Band-to-Band Transition Based On-Chip Optical Modulator

2018-10-04
Gövdeli, Alperen
Sarihan, Murat Can
Karaca, Utku
Kocaman, Serdar
Photonic crystal slab phase shifter based, area efficient and low operation voltage optical modulator design is presented. Required index difference between the Mach-Zehnder interferometer arms of the proposed modulator comes from the photonic band transition.

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Citation Formats
A. Gövdeli, M. C. Sarihan, U. Karaca, and S. Kocaman, “Band-to-Band Transition Based On-Chip Optical Modulator,” 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54061.