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 …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmonic, photonic, or hybrid? Reviewing waveguide geometries for electro-optic modulators

A Messner, D Moor, D Chelladurai, R Svoboda… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are key elements in high-speed optical telecommunication links
and preferably rely on materials with a linear electro-optic effect. Choosing adequate …

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

IC Benea-Chelmus, S Mason, ML Meretska… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications. Most
target fiber applications. Instead, metasurface-based architectures that modulate free-space …

Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

C Haffner, D Chelladurai, Y Fedoryshyn, A Josten… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
For nearly two decades, researchers in the field of plasmonics—which studies the coupling
of electromagnetic waves to the motion of free electrons near the surface of a metal—have …

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; …

[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 …

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-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer

M Ayata, Y Fedoryshyn, W Heni, B Baeuerle, A Josten… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Plasmonics provides a possible route to overcome both the speed limitations of electronics
and the critical dimensions of photonics. We present an all-plasmonic 116–gigabits per …

Polar in-plane surface orientation of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal: Polar monodomains and twisted state electro-optics

X Chen, E Korblova, MA Glaser… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We show that surface interactions can vectorially structure the three-dimensional
polarization field of a ferroelectric fluid. The contact between a ferroelectric nematic liquid …

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 …