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 …

High-efficiency reflector-less dual-level silicon photonic grating coupler

V Vitali, TD Bucio, C Lacava, R Marchetti… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present the design and experimentally demonstrate a dual-level grating coupler with
subdecibel efficiency for a 220 nm thick silicon photonics waveguide which was fabricated …

Wafer-scale demonstration of low-loss (∼ 0.43 dB/cm), high-bandwidth (> 38 GHz), silicon photonics platform operating at the C-band

JXB Sia, X Li, J Wang, W Wang, Z Qiao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The key advantage of silicon photonics comes from its potential for large scale integration, in
a low-cost and scalable fashion. This has sustained the growth in the area despite …

A Si optical modulator based on Fano-like resonance

H Du, W Zhang, W Cao, DJ Thomson… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present an experimental demonstration of a Si optical modulator based on
Fano-like resonance, which is the first of its kind in the literature. The Fano-like resonance is …

High-speed silicon photonic electro-optic Kerr modulation

J Peltier, W Zhang, L Virot, C Lafforgue, L Deniel… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Silicon-based electro-optic modulators contribute to easing the integration of high-speed
and low-power consumption circuits for classical optical communications and data …

CW emission and self-pulsing in a III-V/SiN hybrid laser with narrow band mirror

C Rimoldi, LL Columbo, J Bovington… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on how external cavity III-V/SiN hybrid lasers operate in regimes of ultra-damped
relaxation oscillations or in CW unstable dynamical regimes (self-pulsing or approaching …

Silicon Nitride Building Blocks in the Visible Range of the Spectrum

M Blasco-Solvas, B Fernández-Vior… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a platform guiding single-moded light at wavelengths of 480 nm, 520 nm and
633 nm (blue, green and red) is proposed and designed with several components being …

Damping of relaxation oscillations, photon-photon resonance, and tolerance to external optical feedback of III-V/SiN hybrid lasers with a dispersive narrow band mirror

C Rimoldi, LL Columbo, J Bovington… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We address the stability of a tunable hybrid laser based on a III-V Reflective Semiconductor
Optical Amplifier (RSOA) edge-coupled with a Silicon Photonic (SiPh) dispersive mirror …

Giant enhancement of the Goos–Hanchen shift based on quasi-bound states in the continuum in terahertz band through silicon based metasurface

Z Huang, W Liu, Z Wei, H Meng, H Liu, J Guo, Y Zhi… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
By breaking the symmetry of the structure, we obtain bound states in the continuum (BIC) in
terahertz (THz) using metasurfaces which were prepared with Si and/or Si-compatible …

High-speed silicon Michelson interferometer modulator and streamlined IMDD PAM-4 transmission of Mach-Zehnder modulators for the 2 μm wavelength band

W Cao, S Liu, CG Littlejohns, DJ Thomson… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate high-speed silicon modulators optimized for operating at the wavelength of
2 μm. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) carrier-depletion modulator with 2 mm phase …