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 …

Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

A photonic integrated circuit–based erbium-doped amplifier

Y Liu, Z Qiu, X Ji, A Lukashchuk, J He… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser
technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic …

Dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate in-phase quadrature modulators for terabit-per-second transmission

M Xu, Y Zhu, F Pittalà, J Tang, M He, WC Ng, J Wang… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report, to our knowledge, the first dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate coherent
modulator for next-generation optical links with sub-1-V driving voltage and 110-GHz …

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 …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

Assessment on the achievable throughput of multi-band ITU-T G. 652. D fiber transmission systems

A Ferrari, A Napoli, JK Fischer, N Costa… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Fiber-optic multi-band transmission (MBT) aims at exploiting the low-loss spectral windows
of single-mode fibers (SMFs) for data transport, expanding by the available bandwidth of C …

[HTML][HTML] Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Electrically pumped laser transmitter integrated on thin-film lithium niobate

A Shams-Ansari, D Renaud, R Cheng, L Shao, L He… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics has emerged as a promising platform
for the realization of high-performance chip-scale optical systems. Of particular importance …

Ultrawideband systems and networks: Beyond C+ L-band

T Hoshida, V Curri, L Galdino, DT Neilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the evolution of optical networks, spectral efficiency (SE) enhancement has been the most
cost-efficient and thus the main driver for capacity increase for decades. As a result, the …