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 …

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 …

Segmented silicon modulator with a bandwidth beyond 67 GHz for high-speed signaling

A Mohammadi, Z Zheng, X Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate an all-silicon segmented modulator with traveling-wave electrodes,
achieving an electro-optic bandwidth beyond 67 GHz and a of 5 V. We show that dividing a …

Optimizations of Si PIN diode phase-shifter for controlling MZM quadrature bias point using SOI rib waveguide technology

V Moshaev, Y Leibin, D Malka - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Commercial high-speed silicon (Si) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) required to be active
around the quadrature bias point (linear transmission area) with low power consumption …

High-speed optical digital-to-analog converter operation of compact two-segment all-silicon Mach–Zehnder modulator

Y Sobu, G Huang, S Tanaka, Y Tanaka… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An optical digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is a promising solution for the efficient
generation of multilevel modulation signals without a high-speed electrical DAC and a large …

Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks

C Zhong, K Liao, T Dai, M Wei, H Ma, J Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical neural networks (ONNs) herald a new era in information and communication
technologies and have implemented various intelligent applications. In an ONN, the …

Graphene-based Silicon Photonic Electro-Absorption Modulators and Phase Modulators

C Wu, T Reep, S Brems, D Yudistira… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since their first demonstration, graphene-based silicon waveguide modulators have evolved
towards very attractive devices for adoption in future optical interconnects. In this paper, we …

Integrated Photonic Passive Building Blocks on Silicon-On-Insulator Platform

F Amanti, G Andrini, F Armani, F Barbato, V Bellani… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Integrated photonics on Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) substrates is a well developed research
field that has already significantly impacted various fields, such as quantum computing …

Forward-Biased Silicon Phase Shifter Modelling for Electronic-Photonic Co-Simulation and Validation in a 250 nm EPIC BiCMOS Technology

T Schwabe, C Kress, S Kruse, M Weizel… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A physical model of a forward biased silicon phase shifter (FB-PS) in a 250 nm electronic-
photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) BiCMOS technology was developed and fitted to …

An Electro-Optic Mixed Structure Multiplier with an Optical Delay Accumulation Scheme in Time-Domain

B Pei, M Lai, P Ji, W Lin, S Xu, Z Luo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a novel multiplier design methodology with an electro-optic mixed
structure based on time-domain accumulation. Especially, it employs complementary metal …