Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Vertical junction resonant microdisk modulators and switches have been demonstrated with
exceptionally low power consumption, low-voltage operation, high-speed, and compact size …

We demonstrate a single-drive push-pull silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) with a π-
phase-shift voltage of 3.1 V and speed up to 30 Gb/s. The on-chip insertion loss is 9 dB due …

Lithium niobate (LN) microdisk resonators on a LN-silica-LN chip were fabricated using only
conventional semiconductor fabrication processes. The quality factor of the LN resonator …

We analyze energy consumption in optical modulators operated in depletion and intended
for low-power interconnect applications. We include dynamic dissipation from charging …

Silicon photonics is the most promising pathway to achieve> 10 Tb/s off-chip I/O bandwidth
required by next-generation high-performance computing and switching systems. Ring …

We report a high-speed ring modulator that fits many of the ideal qualities for optical
interconnect in future exascale supercomputers. The device was fabricated in a 130nm SOI …

A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …

A high-speed depletion-mode silicon-based microring modulator with interleaved PN
junctions optimized for high modulation efficiency and large alignment tolerance is …

A detailed analysis of fundamental tradeoffs between ring radius and coupling gap size is
presented to draw realistic borders of the possible design space for microring resonators …