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 …

High-performance organic second-and third-order nonlinear optical materials for ultrafast information processing

J Wu, J Luo, AKY Jen - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are very important for high-speed information
processing in addressing the challenges of reduced energy consumption and enhanced …

Silicon intensity Mach–Zehnder modulator for single lane 100 Gb/s applications

M Li, L Wang, X Li, X **ao, S Yu - Photonics Research, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, a substrate removing technique in a silicon Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) is
proposed and demonstrated to improve modulation bandwidth. Based on the novel and …

Hybrid multi-chip assembly of optical communication engines by in situ 3D nano-lithography

M Blaicher, MR Billah, J Kemal, T Hoose… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) nano-printing of freeform optical waveguides, also referred
to as photonic wire bonding, allows for efficient coupling between photonic chips and can …

Ultra-high electro-optic activity demonstrated in a silicon-organic hybrid modulator

C Kieninger, Y Kutuvantavida, DL Elder, S Wolf… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit
strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase …

Hybrid electro-optic modulator combining silicon photonic slot waveguides with high-k radio-frequency slotlines

S Ummethala, JN Kemal, AS Alam, M Lauermann… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic (EO) modulators rely on the interaction of optical and electrical signals with
second-order nonlinear media. For the optical signal, this interaction can be strongly …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 Gbit/s on-off keying

S Wolf, H Zwickel, W Hartmann, M Lauermann… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators for high-speed on-off keying (OOK) are key components of short-
and medium-reach interconnects in data-center networks. Small footprint, cost-efficient large …

Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss

C Kieninger, C Füllner, H Zwickel, Y Kutuvantavida… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators
(MZM) with low phase-shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 µm-long phase shifters …

Perspective: Nanophotonic electro-optics enabling THz bandwidths, exceptional modulation and energy efficiencies, and compact device footprints

LR Dalton, J Leuthold, BH Robinson, C Haffner… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The growth of integrated photonics has driven the need for efficient, high-bandwidth
electrical-to-optical (EO) signal conversion over a broad range of frequencies (MHz–THz) …

A 128 Gb/s PAM4 silicon microring modulator

J Sun, M Sakib, J Driscoll, R Kumar… - Optical Fiber …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
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128 Gb/s PAM4 Silicon Microring Modulator Jie Sun, Meer Sakib, Jeffrey Driscoll, Ranjeet …