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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Stevan S. Djordjevic, San Diego, CA (US);
John E. Cunningham, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy, San Diego, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
An electro-refraction modulator includes a series of layers with different doping levels surrounding a single-crystal regrown p-n junction implemented in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The regrown p-n junction is spatially abrupt and precisely defined, which significantly increases the tuning efficiency of the electro-refraction modulator while maintaining acceptable insertion loss. Consequently, the electro-refraction modulator (such as a resonator modulator or a Mach-Zehnder interferometer modulator) can have high bandwidth, compact size and reduced drive voltage. The improved performance of the electro-refraction modulator may facilitate silicon-photonic links for use in applications such as wavelength-division multiplexing.