title: Wide temperature range operation of micrometer-scale silicon electro-optic modulators.
abstract: We demonstrate high bit rate electro-optic modulation in a resonant micrometer-scale silicon modulator over an ambient temperature range of 15 K. We show that low bit error rates can be achieved by varying the bias current through the device to thermally counteract the ambient temperature changes. Robustness in the presence of thermal variations can enable a wide variety of applications for dense on chip electronic photonic integration.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Sasikanth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manipatruni
authors.forename: Rajeev K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Dokania
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sherwood-Droz
authors.forename: Carl B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Poitras
authors.forename: Alyssa B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Apsel
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lipson