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 …

Large Pockels effect in micro-and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

S Abel, F Eltes, JE Ortmann, A Messner, P Castera… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The electro-optical Pockels effect is an essential nonlinear effect used in many applications.
The ultrafast modulation of the refractive index is, for example, crucial to optical modulators …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics

M Burla, C Hoessbacher, W Heni, C Haffner… - Apl Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Broadband electro-optic intensity modulators are essential to convert electrical signals to the
optical domain. The growing interest in terahertz wireless applications demands modulators …

Rejuvenating a versatile photonic material: thin‐film lithium niobate

A Honardoost, K Abdelsalam… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The excellent optical and unique material properties of lithium niobate have long
established it as a prevailing photonic material, especially for the long‐haul telecom …

Barium titanate nanostructures and thin films for photonics

A Karvounis, F Timpu… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Barium titanate (BaTiO3) is a synthetic crystal used in electromechanical transducers and
multilayer ceramic capacitors. Since it is not available in nature, a variety of growth methods …

Electro‐Optic Activity in Excess of 1000 pm V−1 Achieved via Theory‐Guided Organic Chromophore Design

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, Y de Coene… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High performance organic electro‐optic (OEO) materials enable ultrahigh bandwidth, small
footprint, and extremely low drive voltage in silicon‐organic hybrid and plasmonic‐organic …

Progress in the enhancement of electro-optic coefficients and orientation stability for organic second-order nonlinear optical materials

J Liu, C Ouyang, F Huo, W He, A Cao - Dyes and Pigments, 2020 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional inorganic second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, organic
second-order NLO materials have many advantages in bandwidth, dielectric constant, half …

Room-temperature continuous-wave operation of organometal halide perovskite lasers

Z Li, J Moon, A Gharajeh, R Haroldson, R Hawkins… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Solution-processed organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites have recently emerged as
promising gain media for tunable semiconductor lasers. However, optically pumped …