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 …

Attojoule optoelectronics for low-energy information processing and communications

DAB Miller - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

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 …

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

P Marin-Palomo, JN Kemal, M Karpov, A Kordts… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance
of dispersion and nonlinearity,. Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated …

Large-scale optical neural networks based on photoelectric multiplication

R Hamerly, L Bernstein, A Sludds, M Soljačić… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware
accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of …

THz-to-optical conversion in wireless communications using an ultra-broadband plasmonic modulator

S Ummethala, T Harter, K Koehnle, Z Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Future wireless communication networks will need to handle data rates of tens or even
hundreds of Gbit s− 1 per link, requiring carrier frequencies in the unallocated THz …

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 …

Integrated microwave photonics

D Marpaung, J Yao, J Capmany - Nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances in photonic integration have propelled microwave photonic technologies
to new heights. The ability to interface hybrid material platforms to enhance light–matter …

[HTML][HTML] High performance thin-film lithium niobate modulator on a silicon substrate using periodic capacitively loaded traveling-wave electrode

G Chen, K Chen, R Gan, Z Ruan, Z Wang, P Huang… - APL photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) based traveling-wave modulators maintain simultaneously
excellent performances, including large modulation bandwidth, high extinction ratio, low …

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 …