CORNERSTONE's silicon photonics rapid prototyping platforms: current status and future outlook

CG Littlejohns, DJ Rowe, H Du, K Li, W Zhang, W Cao… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The CORNERSTONE silicon photonics rapid prototyping service can
be used by academic and industry researchers alike. The platform targets those who require …

Silicon photonic transceivers for application in data centers

H Wang, H Chai, Z Lv, Z Zhang, L Meng… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Global data traffic is growing rapidly, and the demand for optoelectronic transceivers applied
in data centers (DCs) is also increasing correspondingly. In this review, we first briefly …

Silicon photonics for next generation system integration platform

Y Arakawa, T Nakamura, Y Urino… - IEEE Communications …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New semiconductor technologies such as many-core processors and 3D memories are
being researched in order to overcome the limitations of electronics in the near future. Here …

50-Gb/s ring-resonator-based silicon modulator

T Baba, S Akiyama, M Imai, N Hirayama… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We achieved 50-Gb/s operation of a ring-resonator-based silicon modulator for the first time.
The pin-diode phase shifter, which consists of a side-wall-grating waveguide, was loaded …

10-Gbps, 5.3-mW optical transmitter and receiver circuits in 40-nm CMOS

FY Liu, D Patil, J Lexau, P Amberg… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe transmitter and receiver circuits for a 10-Gbps single-ended optical link in a 40-
nm CMOS technology. The circuits are bonded using low-parasitic micro-solder bumps to …

Ultrafast silicon MZI optical switch with periodic electrodes and integrated heat sink

T Kita, M Mendez-Astudillo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The compact, high-speed, low-power consumption Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)-type
optical switch using thermo-optical effect is a key device in future optical integrated circuits …

Narrow spectral linewidth silicon photonic wavelength tunable laser diode for digital coherent communication system

T Kita, R Tang, H Yamada - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrated wavelength tunable laser diodes with Si-wire waveguide ring resonators
as an external optical cavity. The footprint of the optical cavity including the semiconductor …

12.5-Gb/s operation with 0.29-V·cm VπL using silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator based-on forward-biased pin diode

S Akiyama, T Baba, M Imai, T Akagawa… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present high-speed operation of pin-diode-based silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators that
have side-wall gratings on both sides of the waveguide core. The use of pre-emphasis …

Spoof plasmon interconnects—Communications beyond RC limit

SR Joy, M Erementchouk, H Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inception of spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) mode realized in planar, patterned
conductors to manage light beyond diffraction limit at a chosen frequency garnered …

First demonstration of athermal silicon optical interposers with quantum dot lasers operating up to 125 C

Y Urino, N Hatori, K Mizutani, T Usuki… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We previously proposed a photonics-electronics convergence system to solve bandwidth
bottleneck problems among large-scale integrations (LSIs) and demonstrated a high …