Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of self-coherent optical transceivers: fundamental issues, recent advances, and research directions

I Alimi, R Patel, N Silva, C Sun, H Ji, W Shieh, A Pinto… - Applied Sciences, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This paper reviews recent progress on different high-speed optical short-and medium-reach
transmission systems. Furthermore, a comprehensive tutorial on high-performance, low-cost …

CMOS-compatible, AlScN-based integrated electro-optic phase shifter

V Yoshioka, J **, H Zhou, Z Tang, RH Olsson III… - …, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
Commercial production of integrated photonic devices is limited by scalability of desirable
material platforms. We explore a relatively new photonic material, AlScN, for its use in …

Aluminum nitride thin film based reconfigurable integrated photonic devices

Z Luo, A Zhang, W Huang, S Shao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few decades, silicon photonics with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS) process compatibility has been well developed and successfully applied to …

Transmission of 120 Gbaud QAM with an all-silicon segmented modulator

Z Zheng, A Mohammadi, O Jafari… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmenting a silicon modulator can substantially increase its electro-optic bandwidth
without sacrificing modulation efficiency. We demonstrate a segmented silicon IQ modulator …

System optimization of an all-silicon IQ modulator: Achieving 100-Gbaud dual-polarization 32QAM

S Zhalehpour, M Guo, J Lin, Z Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the highest, to the best of our knowledge, reported net rate
in a SiP IQ modulator. At 100 Gbaud 32QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), and …

Challenges in silicon photonics modulators for data center interconnect applications

DM Dourado, GB de Farias, RH Gounella… - Optics & Laser …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The exponential demand for bandwidth in data centers is on high alert with the increase in
data traffic. In this scenario, the design of optical modulators is crucial for the continuous …

CMOS-compatible, AlScN-based integrated electro-optic modulator

V Yoshioka, J **, H Zhou, Z Tang, RH Olsson III… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Commercial production of integrated photonic devices is limited by scalability of desirable
material platforms. We explore a relatively new photonic material, AlScN, for its use in …

Thin-film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator on a D-shaped fiber

M Wang, J Li, K Chen, Z Hu - Optics Express, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
We propose a low-insertion-loss electro-optic modulator formed with LNOI bonded on a D-
shaped SMF. The proposed modulator employs high-performance Mach-Zehnder …

Low driving voltage lithium niobate metasurface electro-optical modulator operating in free space

A Hoblos, N Courjal, MP Bernal, FI Baida - Optics Express, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
A simple configuration of only λ/9 thick 2D metallic grating embedded within an electro-optic
(EO) material (lithium niobate for instance) is proposed and theoretically studied to act as an …