Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

Modern advanced photonic integrated circuits require dense integration of high-speed
electro-optic functional elements on a compact chip that consumes only moderate power …

Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Electrical interconnects are becoming a bottleneck in the way towards meeting future
performance requirements of integrated circuits. Moore's law, which observes the doubling …

In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

Thin films of lithium niobate are wafer bonded onto silicon substrates and rib-loaded with a
chalcogenide glass, Ge_23Sb_7S_70, to demonstrate strongly confined single-mode …

Switching can be performed with multiple physical dimensions of an optical signal.
Previously optical switching was mainly focused in the wavelength domain. In this paper we …

An integrated plasmonic indium-tin-oxide (ITO)-based silicon electro-optical modulator has
been designed, fabricated, and characterized. A sandwich structure shows a 40 GHz …

The exponential growth of global data traffic is driven by the unprecedented digitalization of
the world. To meet the demands of next‐generation high‐capacity data communication …