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 …

Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, H Taghinejad… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has garnered intensive attention due to its unique capabilities in molding the
flow of light in the subwavelength regime. Metasurfaces (MSs) and photonic integrated …

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 …

Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Roadmap on silicon photonics

D Thomson, A Zilkie, JE Bowers, T Komljenovic… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon photonics research can be dated back to the 1980s. However, the previous decade
has witnessed an explosive growth in the field. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Photonic integrated circuits using heterogeneous integration on silicon

T Komljenovic, D Huang, P Pintus… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous silicon photonics using wafer bonding is reaching maturity with commercial
products for the data center market being shipped in volume. Here we give an overview of …

Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

H Subbaraman, X Xu, A Hosseini, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

Optical phase change materials in integrated silicon photonic devices

KJ Miller, RF Haglund Jr, SM Weiss - Optical Materials Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs) are being explored for a variety of photonic
applications due to the extraordinarily large changes in optical properties that occur during …

Athermal broadband graphene optical modulator with 35 GHz speed

H Dalir, Y Xia, Y Wang, X Zhang - ACS photonics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Optical modulators with ultrahigh speed, small footprint, large bandwidth, robust athermal
operation, and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility are …