Figure 7: Bandwidth-limited data transmission.
The experimentally measured high-speed optical eye diagrams of the silicon microdisk modulator when driven by a terminated probe and a 2.2 VPP NRZ-OOK PRBS with a pattern length of 231-1 at data rates of 25-, 34- and 44 Gb s−1. The extinction ratio (ER) and insertion loss (IL) are denoted below the eye diagrams at each data rate.
