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 …

Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Slow-light silicon modulator with 110-GHz bandwidth

C Han, Z Zheng, H Shu, M **, J Qin, R Chen, Y Tao… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Silicon modulators are key components to support the dense integration of electro-optic
functional elements for various applications. Despite numerous advances in promoting the …

An integrated CMOS–silicon photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency

K Li, DJ Thomson, S Liu, W Zhang, W Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The widening application of advanced digital infrastructure requires the development of
communications technologies with increased data transmission rates. However, ensuring …

240 Gb/s optical transmission based on an ultrafast silicon microring modulator

Y Zhang, H Zhang, J Zhang, J Liu, L Wang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
An ultrafast microring modulator (MRM) is fabricated and presented with V_π· L of 0.825 V·
cm. A 240 Gb/s PAM-8 signal transmission over 2 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) is …

Rays, waves, SU (2) symmetry and geometry: toolkits for structured light

Y Shen - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured light refers to the ability to tailor optical patterns in all its degrees of freedom, from
conventional 2D transverse patterns to exotic forms of 3D, 4D, and even higher-dimensional …

An energy-efficient and bandwidth-scalable DWDM heterogeneous silicon photonics integration platform

D Liang, S Srinivasan, G Kurczveil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration has proved to be an attractive and
volume manufacturable solution that marries the merits of III-V compounds and silicon …

Silicon–lithium niobate hybrid intensity and coherent modulators using a periodic capacitively loaded traveling-wave electrode

Z Wang, G Chen, Z Ruan, R Gan, P Huang… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-performance silicon and thin-film lithium niobate hybrid electro-optic modulators are
demonstrated. In order to break the voltage–bandwidth limit in a normal traveling-wave …

Hybrid-integrated high-performance microwave photonic filter with switchable response

Y Tao, H Shu, X Wang, M **, Z Tao, F Yang… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The integrated microwave photonic filter (MPF), as a compelling candidate for next-
generation radio-frequency (RF) applications, has been widely investigated for decades …