Silicon optical modulators

GT Reed, G Mashanovich, FY Gardes, DJ Thomson - Nature photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Optical technology is poised to revolutionize short-reach interconnects. The leading
candidate technology is silicon photonics, and the workhorse of such an interconnect is the …

A survey on optical interconnects for data centers

C Kachris, I Tomkos - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers are experiencing an exponential increase in the amount of network traffic that
they have to sustain due to cloud computing and several emerging web applications. To …

Survey of photonic and plasmonic interconnect technologies for intra-datacenter and high-performance computing communications

CA Thraskias, EN Lallas, N Neumann… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large scale data centers (DC) and high performance computing (HPC) systems require
more and more computing power at higher energy efficiency. They are already consuming …

Recent breakthroughs in carrier depletion based silicon optical modulators

GT Reed, GZ Mashanovich, FY Gardes… - …, 2014 - degruyter.com
The majority of the most successful optical modulators in silicon demonstrated in recent
years operate via the plasma dispersion effect and are more specifically based upon free …

Optical interconnection networks in data centers: recent trends and future challenges

C Kachris, K Kanonakis… - IEEE Communications …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Warehouse-scale data center operators need much-higher-bandwidth intra-data center
networks (DCNs) to sustain the increase of network traffic due to cloud computing and other …

25Gb/s 1V-driving CMOS ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning

G Li, X Zheng, J Yao, H Thacker, I Shubin, Y Luo… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report a high-speed ring modulator that fits many of the ideal qualities for optical
interconnect in future exascale supercomputers. The device was fabricated in a 130nm SOI …

A 25 Gbps silicon microring modulator based on an interleaved junction

JC Rosenberg, WMJ Green, S Assefa, DM Gill… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …

Large-scale integrated photonics for high-performance interconnects

RG Beausoleil - ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Moore's Law has set great expectations that the performance of information technology will
improve exponentially until at least the end of this decade. Although the physics of silicon …

Perfect set-and-forget alignment of silicon photonic resonators and interferometers

Y Shen, IB Divliansky, DN Basov… - Optical Fiber …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
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Perfect set-and-forget alignment of silicon photonic resonators and interferometers Yiran …

Performance analysis of integrated electro-optic phase modulators based on emerging materials

R Amin, R Maiti, JB Khurgin… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electro-optic modulators are utilized ubiquitously ranging from applications in data
communication to photonic neural networks. While tremendous progress has been made …