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 …

Plasmonic, photonic, or hybrid? Reviewing waveguide geometries for electro-optic modulators

A Messner, D Moor, D Chelladurai, R Svoboda… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are key elements in high-speed optical telecommunication links
and preferably rely on materials with a linear electro-optic effect. Choosing adequate …

Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes

P Kharel, C Reimer, K Luke, L He, M Zhang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators with low voltages and large bandwidths are crucial for both analog
and digital communication. Recently, thin-film lithium niobate modulators have emerged as …

Resonant plasmonic micro-racetrack modulators with high bandwidth and high temperature tolerance

M Eppenberger, A Messner, BI Bitachon, W Heni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Resonant modulators encode electrical data onto wavelength-multiplexed optical carriers.
Today, silicon microring modulators are perceived as promising to implement such links; …

High-temperature-resistant silicon-polymer hybrid modulator operating at up to 200 Gbit s−1 for energy-efficient datacentres and harsh-environment applications

GW Lu, J Hong, F Qiu, AM Spring, T Kashino… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To reduce the ever-increasing energy consumption in datacenters, one of the effective
approaches is to increase the ambient temperature, thus lowering the energy consumed in …

Electro‐Optic Activity in Excess of 1000 pm V−1 Achieved via Theory‐Guided Organic Chromophore Design

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, Y de Coene… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High performance organic electro‐optic (OEO) materials enable ultrahigh bandwidth, small
footprint, and extremely low drive voltage in silicon‐organic hybrid and plasmonic‐organic …

Ultrahigh electro-optic coefficients, high index of refraction, and long-term stability from Diels–Alder cross-linkable binary molecular glasses

H Xu, F Liu, DL Elder, LE Johnson… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The development of organic electro-optic (EO) materials that concurrently possess a high
electro-optic coefficient (r 33), high index of refraction, and long-term or high-temperature …

Design and synthesis of chromophores with enhanced electro-optic activities in both bulk and plasmonic–organic hybrid devices

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, W Heni, Y de Coene… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This study demonstrates enhancement of in-device electro-optic activity via a series of
theory-inspired organic electro-optic (OEO) chromophores based on strong (diarylamino) …

Advances in integrated ultra-wideband electro-optic modulators

M Xu, X Cai - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Increasing data traffic and bandwidth-hungry applications require electro-optic modulators
with ultra-wide modulation bandwidth for cost-efficient optical networks. Thus far, integrated …

Ultra-fast perovskite electro-optic modulator and multi-band transmission up to 300 Gbit s−1

J Mao, F Uemura, SA Yazdani, Y Yin, H Sato… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The gap between the performance of optoelectronic components and the demands of fiber-
optic communications has narrowed significantly in recent decades. Yet, the expansion of …