Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

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 …

We report the first demonstration of a silicon photonic microring modulator with modulation
data rate up to 128 Gb/s (64 Gbaud PAM4). The microring modulator exhibits an electro …

Recent years have witnessed many breakthroughs in research on graphene (the first two-
dimensional atomic crystal) as well as a significant advance in the mass production of this …

Silicon photonics has emerged as the leading candidate for implementing ultralow power
wavelength–division–multiplexed communication networks in high-performance computers …

Of all oxides, lithium niobate (LiNbO_3) is the gold standard electro-optical material in fiber-
optic transmission systems. Modulators based on diffused waveguides in bulk LiNbO_3 …

Silicon microring resonators have been hailed for their potential use in next-generation
optical interconnects. However, the functionality of silicon microring based devices suffer …

We analyze energy consumption in optical modulators operated in depletion and intended
for low-power interconnect applications. We include dynamic dissipation from charging …

Silicon photonics is the most promising pathway to achieve> 10 Tb/s off-chip I/O bandwidth
required by next-generation high-performance computing and switching systems. Ring …