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 …

2D material optoelectronics for information functional device applications: status and challenges

T Tan, X Jiang, C Wang, B Yao, H Zhang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene and the following derivative 2D materials have been demonstrated to exhibit rich
distinct optoelectronic properties, such as broadband optical response, strong and tunable …

Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

2D materials for optical modulation: challenges and opportunities

S Yu, X Wu, Y Wang, X Guo, L Tong - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their atomic layer thickness, strong light–material interaction, high nonlinearity,
broadband optical response, fast relaxation, controllable optoelectronic properties, and high …

2D materials enabled next‐generation integrated optoelectronics: from fabrication to applications

Z Cheng, R Cao, K Wei, Y Yao, X Liu, J Kang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials, such as graphene, black phosphorous and transition metal
dichalcogenides, have gained persistent attention in the past few years thanks to their …

Graphene–silicon phase modulators with gigahertz bandwidth

V Sorianello, M Midrio, G Contestabile, I Asselberghs… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The modulator is a key component in optical communications. Several graphene-based
amplitude modulators have been reported based on electro-absorption. However, graphene …

Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

H Lin, Y Song, Y Huang, D Kita, S Deckoff-Jones… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are of tremendous interest to integrated photonics,
given their singular optical characteristics spanning light emission, modulation, saturable …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

2D III‐nitride materials: properties, growth, and applications

J Ben, X Liu, C Wang, Y Zhang, Z Shi, Y Jia… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D III‐nitride materials have been receiving considerable attention recently due to
their excellent physicochemical properties, such as high stability, wide and tunable …