Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Organic crystals for THz photonics

M Jazbinsek, U Puc, A Abina, A Zidansek - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Organic crystals with second-order optical nonlinearity feature very high and ultra-fast
optical nonlinearities and are therefore attractive for various photonics applications. During …

High-performance coherent optical modulators based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

M Xu, M He, H Zhang, J Jian, Y Pan, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

C Haffner, W Heni, Y Fedoryshyn, J Niegemann… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Optical modulators encode electrical signals to the optical domain and thus constitute a key
element in high-capacity communication links,. Ideally, they should feature operation at the …

Expanding the silicon photonics portfolio with silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits

A Rahim, E Ryckeboer, AZ Subramanian… - Journal of lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The high index contrast silicon-on-insulator platform is the dominant CMOS compatible
platform for photonic integration. The successful use of silicon photonic chips in optical …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

High-speed plasmonic phase modulators

A Melikyan, L Alloatti, A Muslija, D Hillerkuss… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
To keep pace with the demands in optical communications, electro-optic modulators should
feature large bandwidths, operate across all telecommunication windows, offer a small …