Silicon optical modulators

GT Reed, G Mashanovich, FY Gardes, DJ Thomson - Nature photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Optical technology is poised to revolutionize short-reach interconnects. The leading
candidate technology is silicon photonics, and the workhorse of such an interconnect is the …

Review and perspective on ultrafast wavelength‐size electro‐optic modulators

K Liu, CR Ye, S Khan, VJ Sorger - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
As electronic device feature sizes scale‐down, the power consumed due to onchip
communications as compared to computations will increase dramatically; likewise, the …

Silicon photonics: from a microresonator perspective

S Feng, T Lei, H Chen, H Cai, X Luo… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Pockels effect based fully integrated, strained silicon electro-optic modulator

B Chmielak, M Waldow, C Matheisen, C Ripperda… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate for the first time a fully integrated electro-optic modulator based on locally
strained silicon rib-waveguides. By depositing a Si_3N_4 strain layer directly on top of the …

42.7 Gbit/s electro-optic modulator in silicon technology

L Alloatti, D Korn, R Palmer, D Hillerkuss, J Li… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
CMOS-compatible optical modulators are key components for future silicon-based photonic
transceivers. However, achieving low modulation voltage and high speed operation still …

A monolithic 25-Gb/s transceiver with photonic ring modulators and Ge detectors in a 130-nm CMOS SOI process

JF Buckwalter, X Zheng, G Li, K Raj… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully-integrated, silicon photonic transceiver is demonstrated in a silicon-on-insulator
process using photonic microring resonator modulators for low power consumption. The …

Nanophotonic integration in state-of-the-art CMOS foundries

JS Orcutt, A Khilo, CW Holzwarth, MA Popović, H Li… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a monolithic photonic integration platform that leverages the existing state-
of-the-art CMOS foundry infrastructure. In our approach, proven XeF_2 post-processing …

25 Gbit/s silicon microring modulator based on misalignment-tolerant interleaved PN junctions

X Xiao, H Xu, X Li, Y Hu, K Xiong, Z Li, T Chu, Y Yu… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A high-speed depletion-mode silicon-based microring modulator with interleaved PN
junctions optimized for high modulation efficiency and large alignment tolerance is …

Exploiting CMOS manufacturing to reduce tuning requirements for resonant optical devices

AV Krishnamoorthy, X Zheng, G Li, J Yao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present manufacturing tolerances of cascaded silicon microring resonators fabricated in
a commercial 130-nm complementary-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) foundry using 193-nm …

Ultra-efficient 10Gb/s hybrid integrated silicon photonic transmitter and receiver

X Zheng, D Patil, J Lexau, F Liu, G Li, H Thacker… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Using low parasitic microsolder bumping, we hybrid integrated efficient photonic devices
from different platforms with advanced 40 nm CMOS VLSI circuits to build ultra-low power …