  An energy/area-efficient low-cost broadband linearity enhancement technique
for electro-optic micro-ring modulators (MRM) is proposed to achieve 6.1-dB
dynamic linearity improvement in spurious-free-dynamic-range with
intermodulation distortions (IMD) and 17.9-dB static linearity improvement in
integral nonlinearity over a conventional notch-filter MRM within a 4.8-dB
extinction-ratio (ER) full-scale range based on rapid silicon-photonics
fabrication results for the emerging applications of various analog and digital
optical communication systems.
