Abstract
We show that modulators using slow-light Mach-Zehnder interferometers can be miniaturized, but at the price of bandwidth. We offer guidelines to replace this tradeoff with a more favorable one between length reduction and manufacturing variation.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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