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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 785-787Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000785
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [60777040]
- State Key Laboratory Foundation [GKZD030009]
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We propose a silicon ring-based optical modulation method to perform chirp-free optical modulations. In this scheme, we locate the light to be modulated at the resonance of the ring and tune the coupling coefficient between the ring and the straight waveguide by using a push-pull coupling structure. The chirp-free phase modulation can be achieved by varying the coupling coefficient in a large range, which can modify the coupling condition of the ring such that the input light experiences an abrupt phase shift of pi at the output. If the coupling coefficient is adjusted in a small range such that the coupling condition of the ring is kept unchanged, only the intensity of the light will be modulated. This leads to chirp-free intensity modulation. Our simulations performed at 10 Gbits/s confirm the feasibility of the proposal. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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