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 …

Thermo-optic phase shifters based on silicon-on-insulator platform: state-of-the-art and a review

S Liu, J Feng, Y Tian, H Zhao, L Jin, B Ouyang… - Frontiers of …, 2022 - Springer
Silicon photonic platforms offer relevance to large markets in many applications, such as
optical phased arrays, photonic neural networks, programmable photonic integrated circuits …

2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics

G Moody, VJ Sorger, DJ Blumenthal… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated photonics will play a key role in quantum systems as they grow from few-qubit
prototypes to tens of thousands of qubits. The underlying optical quantum technologies can …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

High-temperature-resistant silicon-polymer hybrid modulator operating at up to 200 Gbit s−1 for energy-efficient datacentres and harsh-environment applications

GW Lu, J Hong, F Qiu, AM Spring, T Kashino… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To reduce the ever-increasing energy consumption in datacenters, one of the effective
approaches is to increase the ambient temperature, thus lowering the energy consumed in …

Electro‐Optic Activity in Excess of 1000 pm V−1 Achieved via Theory‐Guided Organic Chromophore Design

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, Y de Coene… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High performance organic electro‐optic (OEO) materials enable ultrahigh bandwidth, small
footprint, and extremely low drive voltage in silicon‐organic hybrid and plasmonic‐organic …

Devices and fibers for ultrawideband optical communications

J Renaudier, A Napoli, M Ionescu, C Calo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) has historically enabled the increase in the
capacity of optical systems by progressively populating the existing optical bandwidth of …

Design and synthesis of chromophores with enhanced electro-optic activities in both bulk and plasmonic–organic hybrid devices

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, W Heni, Y de Coene… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This study demonstrates enhancement of in-device electro-optic activity via a series of
theory-inspired organic electro-optic (OEO) chromophores based on strong (diarylamino) …

Heterogeneously integrated ITO plasmonic Mach–Zehnder interferometric modulator on SOI

R Amin, R Maiti, Y Gui, C Suer, M Miscuglio… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Densely integrated active photonics is key for next generation on-chip networks for
addressing both footprint and energy budget concerns. However, the weak light-matter …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmonic, photonic, or hybrid? Reviewing waveguide geometries for electro-optic modulators

A Messner, D Moor, D Chelladurai, R Svoboda… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are key elements in high-speed optical telecommunication links
and preferably rely on materials with a linear electro-optic effect. Choosing adequate …