Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

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 …

Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

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 …

Low-loss composite photonic platform based on 2D semiconductor monolayers

I Datta, SH Chae, GR Bhatt, MA Tadayon, B Li, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known to change
dramatically with doping near their excitonic resonances. However, little is known about the …

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 …

Efficient low-loss InGaAsP/Si hybrid MOS optical modulator

JH Han, F Boeuf, J Fujikata, S Takahashi, S Takagi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
An optical modulator integrated on silicon is a key enabler for high-performance optical
interconnects,,,,,. However, Si-based optical modulators suffer from low phase-modulation …

An energy-efficient and bandwidth-scalable DWDM heterogeneous silicon photonics integration platform

D Liang, S Srinivasan, G Kurczveil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration has proved to be an attractive and
volume manufacturable solution that marries the merits of III-V compounds and silicon …

A coherent photonic crossbar for scalable universal linear optics

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis, Y Ma… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a novel interferometric coherent photonic crossbar architecture (Xbar) that
can realize any tensor operator and allows for total loss-induced fidelity restoration, offering …

Integrated finely tunable microring laser on silicon

D Liang, X Huang, G Kurczveil, M Fiorentino… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Large-scale computer installations are severely limited by network-bandwidth constraints
and energy costs that arise from architectural designs originally based on copper …