Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Silicon photonics for high-speed communications and photonic signal processing

X Zhou, D Yi, DWU Chan, HK Tsang - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Leveraging on the mature processing infrastructure of silicon microelectronics, silicon
photonic integrated circuits may be readily scaled to large volume production for low-cost …

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 …

Toward coherent O-band data center interconnects

PM Seiler, G Georgieva, G Winzer, A Peczek… - Frontiers of …, 2021 - Springer
Upcoming generations of coherent intra/inter data center interconnects currently lack a clear
path toward a reduction of cost and power consumption, which are the driving factors for …

High baud rate transmission with silicon photonic modulators

F Zhang, L Zhang, X Ruan, F Yang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review high baud rate operation of silicon photonic modulators with emphasis on short-
reach and metro-haul applications. The current status of both devices and digital signal …

High bandwidth capacitance efficient silicon MOS modulator

W Zhang, K Debnath, B Chen, K Li, S Liu… - Journal of lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
This article analysed and optimised horizontal Silicon insulator Silicon capacitor (H-SISCAP)
phase shifter structures with insulator thickness tox up to 40 nm. The phase shifter has an …

Over-85-GHz-bandwidth InP-based coherent driver modulator capable of 1-Tb/s/λ-class operation

J Ozaki, Y Ogiso, Y Hashizume, H Yamazaki… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We developed an InP-based coherent driver modulator (CDM) with a flexible printed circuit
(FPC) RF interface. The CDM has a 3-dB electro-optic (EO) bandwidth of over 85 GHz …

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 …

A compact 112-Gbaud PAM-4 silicon photonics transceiver for short-reach interconnects

DWU Chan, G Zhou, X Wu, Y Tong, J Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
For next generation highly integrated transceivers, silicon photonics (SiP) has attracted
widespread interest in using mature CMOS production processes to manufacture high-yield …

300-Gbps optical interconnection using neural-network based silicon microring modulator

F Hu, Y Zhang, H Zhang, Z Li, S **ng, J Shi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon microring modulators (Si-MRM) are critical components for high-performance electro-
optical (EO) signal conversion at optical interconnections due to their ultrawide bandwidth …