The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Silicon photonics research can be dated back to the 1980s. However, the previous decade
has witnessed an explosive growth in the field. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology …

In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Many companies are deploying services largely based on machine-learning algorithms for
sophisticated processing of large amounts of data, either for consumers or industry. The …

Recent technical and commercial milestones in Silicon Photonics technology including its
introduction into commercial foundries, and successful integration of most optical …

Industrial implementation of a silicon photonics platform using 300-mm SOI wafers and
aiming at 100 Gb/s aggregate data-rate application is demonstrated. The integration strategy …

This article presents a 50-Gb/s optical transmitter (TX), consisting of a 40-nm distributed
CMOS driver and a 180-nm silicon-photonic modulator. A lumped-segment Mach–Zehnder …

The bandwidth requirement of wireline communications has increased exponentially
because of the ever-increasing demand for data centers and high-performance computing …

In this paper, a monolithically integrated segmented linear driver and Mach-Zehnder
modulator (MZM) are presented. The transmitter is fabricated in electronic-photonic …

This article presents a 100-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) optical
transmitter system implemented in a 3-D-integrated silicon photonics-CMOS platform. The …