Silicon-photonics microring links for datacenters—Challenges and opportunities

AH Ahmed, A Sharkia, B Casper… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of warehouse-scale datacenters demands high-throughput optical
interconnects that can span short-to-medium reach distances (<; few kilometers). Microring …

Germanium photodetector with 60 GHz bandwidth using inductive gain peaking

A Novack, M Gould, Y Yang, Z Xuan, M Streshinsky… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Germanium-on-silicon photodetectors have been heavily investigated in recent years as a
key component of CMOS-compatible integrated photonics platforms. It has previously been …

Imperfect quantum photonic neural networks

J Ewaniuk, J Carolan, BJ Shastri… - Advanced Quantum …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum photonic neural networks are variational photonic circuits that can be trained to
implement high‐fidelity quantum operations. However, work‐to‐date has assumed idealized …

Serial 103.125-Gb/s transmission over 1 km SSMF for low-cost, short-reach optical interconnects

J Lee, N Kaneda, T Pfau, A Konczykowska… - Optical Fiber …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Abstract Single-wavelength, serial 103.125-Gb/s transmission over 1 km SSMF is
demonstrated using intensity-modulation and direct-detection. The high-speed on-off-keying …

Bandwidth improvement for germanium photodetector using wire bonding technology

G Chen, Y Yu, S Deng, L Liu, X Zhang - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an ultrahigh speed germanium photodetector by introducing gold wires into
the discrete ground electrodes with standard wire bonding technology. To engineer the …

Experimental performance of DWDM quadruple Vernier racetrack resonators

R Boeck, J Flueckiger, L Chrostowski, NAF Jaeger - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that one can meet numerous commercial requirements for filters used in
dense wavelength-division multiplexing applications using quadruple Vernier racetrack …

An integrated germanium-based THz impulse radiator with an optical waveguide coupled photoconductive switch in silicon

P Chen, M Hosseini, A Babakhani - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an integrated germanium (Ge)-based THz impulse radiator with an
optical waveguide coupled photoconductive switch in a low-cost silicon-on-insulator (SOI) …

High-speed silicon electro-optic microring modulator for optical interconnects

A Malacarne, F Gambini, S Faralli… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A silicon microring modulator for ON-OFF keying intensity modulation is presented and
experimentally characterized. Modulation operation is based on carrier depletion effect in a …

Nanoscale resonant-cavity-enhanced germanium photodetectors with lithographically defined spectral response for improved performance at telecommunications …

KC Balram, RM Audet, DAB Miller - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the use of a subwavelength planar metal-dielectric resonant cavity to
enhance the absorption of germanium photodetectors at wavelengths beyond the material's …

Ultra-responsive phase shifters for depletion mode silicon modulators

Y Liu, S Dunham, T Baehr-Jones… - Journal of lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel phase shifter design for carrier depletion based silicon modulators,
based on an experimentally validated model. We note that the heretofore neglected effect of …