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 …

Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes

P Kharel, C Reimer, K Luke, L He, M Zhang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators with low voltages and large bandwidths are crucial for both analog
and digital communication. Recently, thin-film lithium niobate modulators have emerged as …

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

N Quack, AY Takabayashi, H Sattari… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in
critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications …

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 …

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 …

Coherent LiDAR with an 8,192-element optical phased array and driving laser

CV Poulton, MJ Byrd, P Russo, B Moss… - IEEE journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present recent advancements of optical phased array LiDAR with record-performance
system demonstrations. First, we give an overview of the technology and how it combines …

Communications with guaranteed bandwidth and low latency using frequency-referenced multiplexing

Z Zhou, J Wei, Y Luo, KA Clark, E Sillekens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging cloud applications such as virtual reality and connected car fleets demand
guaranteed connections, as well as low and stable latency, to edge data centres. Currently …

An integrated CMOS–silicon photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency

K Li, DJ Thomson, S Liu, W Zhang, W Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The widening application of advanced digital infrastructure requires the development of
communications technologies with increased data transmission rates. However, ensuring …

Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators

W Zhang, M Ebert, K Li, B Chen, X Yan, H Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-bandwidth, low-power and compact silicon electro-optical modulators are essential for
future energy-efficient and densely integrated optical data communication circuits. The all …