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Performance Analysis of an Electrostatic Doping Assisted Dual Parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulator

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Advances in Smart Communication Technology and Information Processing

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This paper discuss on the performance of a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM) using electrostatic doping (ED) assisted optical phase shifters on 220 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Analytical model of the proposed DP-MZM along with nonlinear model is also presented here. The proposed DP-MZM contains two ED-assisted sub-MZMs and an ED-assisted optical phase shifter (PS) in an interferometric structure. Numerical simulations are performed using commercially available tools. Simulation results predict that the proposed DP-MZM with 400 µm long sub-MZMs can offer peak dynamic extinction ratio (ER) of 14 dB with maximum 8.7 dB of insertion loss (IL). Using dual-tone test method, the predicted spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of the modulator are 62.74 dB Hz1/2 and 99.35 dB Hz2/3 for second and third harmonic intermodulation distortions (IMD2 and IMD3), respectively. From transient analysis, the estimated maximum operating frequency, and 3-dB EO bandwidth of the modulator are approximately 35.5 GHz, and 32.37 GHz, respectively. Simulation verifies successful transmission of 25 Gb/s OOK modulated PRBS data stream over a 2 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) link, making it suitable for short reach interconnects.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Newtown, Kolkata, 700160, India

    Soumi Saha

  2. School of Electronics Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, 751024, Odisha, India

    Rohan Roy

  3. Department of EEE, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciece, Pilani (BITS Pilani), Hyderabad, 500078, Telangana, India

    Subhradeep Pal

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Saha, S., Roy, R., Pal, S. (2021). Performance Analysis of an Electrostatic Doping Assisted Dual Parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulator. In: Banerjee, S., Mandal, J.K. (eds) Advances in Smart Communication Technology and Information Processing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 165. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9433-5_6

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