Demonstration of Vpi Reduction in Electrooptic Modulators using Modulation Instability

摘要

Reduction in the operating voltage of electrooptic modulators is needed inorder to remove the bottleneck in the flow of data between electronics andoptical interconnects. We report experimental demonstration of a 10 foldreduction in an electrooptic modulator's half-wave voltage up to 50 GHz. Thiswas achieved by employing optical sideband-only amplification.