Silicon photonic devices and integrated circuits have undergone rapid and significant
progresses during the last decade, transitioning from research topics in universities to …

As electronic device feature sizes scale‐down, the power consumed due to onchip
communications as compared to computations will increase dramatically; likewise, the …

The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Optical frequency combs have the potential to revolutionize terabit communications. The
generation of Kerr combs in nonlinear microresonators is particularly promising, enabling …

Energy-efficient electro-optic modulators are at the heart of short-reach optical interconnects,
and silicon photonics is considered the leading technology for realizing such devices …

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 …

We present silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based coherent optical transmitters
and receivers for high-speed long-distance fiber optical transmission. High-degree photonic …

Chip-scale integration of electronics and photonics is recognized as important to the future
of information technology, as is the exploitation of the best properties of electronics …

In this brief review, nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores widely used in electro-optic (EO)
devices are summarized according to their EO coefficients. The advances of EO modulators …