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 …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon photonic phase shifters and their applications: A review

H Sun, Q Qiao, Q Guan, G Zhou - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of silicon photonics, dense photonic integrated circuits play a
significant role in applications such as light detection and ranging systems, photonic …

Open-access silicon photonics: Current status and emerging initiatives

A Rahim, T Spuesens, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic integration for UV to IR applications

DJ Blumenthal - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic integration opens the potential to reduce size, power, and cost of applications
normally relegated to table-and rack-sized systems. Today, a wide range of precision, high …

[HTML][HTML] A blueprint for precise and fault-tolerant analog neural networks

C Demirkiran, L Nair, D Bunandar, A Joshi - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Analog computing has reemerged as a promising avenue for accelerating deep neural
networks (DNNs) to overcome the scalability challenges posed by traditional digital …

Piezoelectrically tuned silicon nitride ring resonator

W Jin, RG Polcawich, PA Morton, JE Bowers - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Typical integrated optical phase tuners alter the effective index. In this paper, we explore
tuning by geometric deformation. We show that tuning efficiency, Vπ L, improves as the …

Integrated coherent Ising machines based on self-phase modulation in microring resonators

N Tezak, T Van Vaerenbergh, JS Pelc… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an integrated photonic circuit that acts as an optical coherent Ising machine and
simulates its performance on the basis of some example problems. In contrast to previous all …

Triply resonant coupled-cavity electro-optic modulators for RF to optical signal conversion

H Gevorgyan, A Khilo, Y Ehrlichman, MA Popović - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose an on-chip triply resonant electro-optic modulator architecture for RF-to-optical
signal conversion and provide a detailed theoretical analysis of the optimal “circuit-level” …

Quadratic electro-optical silicon-organic hybrid RF modulator in a photonic integrated circuit technology

P Steglich, C Mai, A Peczek… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the first time, an integrated electro-optical RF modulator based on the quadratic electro-
optical effect with CMOS compatible sub-volt driver voltages is presented. As unique feature …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of hybrid silicon nitride/polymer Mach-Zehnder optical modulator beyond 170 GHz

B Huang, Z Zhang, M Li, K Zhang, T Liu, H Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, a hybrid Mach-Zehnder optical modulator is proposed based on silicon
nitride/organic polymer waveguides, which is expected to break through the performance …