Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder Modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 Signaling With Sub-1 dB Phase-Shifter Loss

Clemens Kieninger, Christoph Füllner, Heiner Zwickel +8

We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) with low phase shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 $\mu$m-long phase shifters feat…