Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Roadmap** the next generation of silicon photonics

S Shekhar, W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in
optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated …

The 2023 terahertz science and technology roadmap

A Leitenstorfer, AS Moskalenko… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Terahertz (THz) radiation encompasses a wide spectral range within the electromagnetic
spectrum that extends from microwaves to the far infrared (100 GHz–∼ 30 THz). Within its …

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 …

Resonant plasmonic micro-racetrack modulators with high bandwidth and high temperature tolerance

M Eppenberger, A Messner, BI Bitachon, W Heni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Resonant modulators encode electrical data onto wavelength-multiplexed optical carriers.
Today, silicon microring modulators are perceived as promising to implement such links; …

High-temperature-resistant silicon-polymer hybrid modulator operating at up to 200 Gbit s−1 for energy-efficient datacentres and harsh-environment applications

GW Lu, J Hong, F Qiu, AM Spring, T Kashino… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To reduce the ever-increasing energy consumption in datacenters, one of the effective
approaches is to increase the ambient temperature, thus lowering the energy consumed in …

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 …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit

M Garrett, Y Liu, M Merklein, CT Bui, CK Lai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microwave photonics (MWP) has unlocked a new paradigm for Radio Frequency (RF) signal
processing by harnessing the inherent broadband and tunable nature of photonic …

Ultrafast dynamic machine vision with spatiotemporal photonic computing

T Zhou, W Wu, J Zhang, S Yu, L Fang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Ultrafast dynamic machine vision in the optical domain can provide unprecedented
perspectives for high-performance computing. However, owing to the limited degrees of …