Shaping High‐Q Planar Fano Resonant Metamaterials toward Futuristic Technologies

WX Lim, M Manjappa, P Pitchappa… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in plasmonic metamaterials have been rapidly evolving with innovations aimed at
developing metadevices for real‐world applications. In reality, energy losses in plasmonic …

Large Pockels effect in micro-and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

S Abel, F Eltes, JE Ortmann, A Messner, P Castera… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

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; …

A 128 Gb/s PAM4 silicon microring modulator with integrated thermo-optic resonance tuning

J Sun, R Kumar, M Sakib, JB Driscoll… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

High-speed electro-optic modulation in topological interface states of a one-dimensional lattice

Y Zhang, J Shen, J Li, H Wang, C Feng… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators are key components in data communication, microwave photonics,
and quantum photonics. Modulation bandwidth, energy efficiency, and device dimension are …

240 Gb/s optical transmission based on an ultrafast silicon microring modulator

Y Zhang, H Zhang, J Zhang, J Liu, L Wang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
An ultrafast microring modulator (MRM) is fabricated and presented with V_π· L of 0.825 V·
cm. A 240 Gb/s PAM-8 signal transmission over 2 km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) is …

Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators

W Zhang, M Ebert, K Li, B Chen, X Yan, H Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-bandwidth, low-power and compact silicon electro-optical modulators are essential for
future energy-efficient and densely integrated optical data communication circuits. The all …

Efficient 330-Gb/s PAM-8 modulation using silicon microring modulators

DWU Chan, X Wu, C Lu, APT Lau, HK Tsang - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a high-efficiency silicon microring modulator for next-
generation optical transmitters operating at line rates above 300 Gb/s. The modulator …