Digital signal processing for short-reach optical communications: A review of current technologies and future trends

K Zhong, X Zhou, J Huo, C Yu, C Lu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven primarily by cloud service and data-center applications, short-reach optical
communication has become a key market segment and growing research area in recent …

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 …

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 …

100 GHz externally modulated laser for optical interconnects

O Ozolins, X Pang, MI Olmedo, A Kakkar… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on a 116 Gb/s on-off keying (OOK), four pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and
105-Gb/s 8-PAM optical transmitter using an InP-based integrated and packaged externally …

Silicon photonic modulators for PAM transmissions

W Shi, Y Xu, H Sepehrian, S LaRochelle… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed optical interconnects are crucial for both data centers and high performance
computing systems. High power consumption and limited device bandwidth have hindered …

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 …

Tunable orbital angular momentum radiation from angular-momentum-biased microcavities

A Mock, D Sounas, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Lasers and light emitters do not typically radiate fields with orbital angular momentum
(OAM). Here we show that a suitable scheme of spatiotemporal modulation of a microring …

Low-power DAC-less PAM-4 transmitter using a cascaded microring modulator

R Dubé-Demers, S LaRochelle, W Shi - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Future super-computer interconnect systems and data centers request ultrahigh data rate
links at low cost and power consumption, for which transmitters with a high level of …

Method to improve the linearity of the silicon Mach-Zehnder optical modulator by do** control

J Ding, S Shao, L Zhang, X Fu, L Yang - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We optimize the linearity performance of silicon carrier-depletion Mach-Zehnder optical
modulator through controlling the do** concentration. The optical field distribution in the …

Adaptive PAM-4/PAM-8 graphene-based electro-optical modulator integrated into a polymer waveguide platform for data-center communication

WA Camacho, MM de Carvalho, JC Ramirez… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new concept of a graphene-based adaptive modulator for multilevel
amplitude modulation on polymer technology platform. This component consists of an …