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 …

Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

The challenges of modern computing and new opportunities for optics

C Li, X Zhang, J Li, T Fang, X Dong - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, the explosive development of artificial intelligence implementing by artificial
neural networks (ANNs) creates inconceivable demands for computing hardware. However …

Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

On-chip silicon photonic signaling and processing: a review

J Wang, Y Long - Science Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

A 100 Gb/s PAM4 two-segment silicon microring resonator modulator using a standard foundry process

Y Yuan, WV Sorin, Z Huang, X Zeng, D Liang… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A compact two-segment depletion mode silicon microring resonator modulator with PAM4
modulation data rate up to 100 Gb/s has been demonstrated. The microring resonator …

C-band 67? GHz silicon photonic microring modulator for dispersion-uncompensated 100 Gbaud PAM-4

DWU Chan, X Wu, Z Zhang, C Lu, APT Lau… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A very-high-bandwidth integrated silicon microring modulator (MRM) designed on a
commercial silicon photonics (SiP) platform for C-band operation is presented. The MRM …