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 …

Integrated lithium niobate photonics

Y Qi, Y Li - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator (LNOI) is a promising material platform for integrated
photonics due to single crystal LiNbO3 film's wide transparent window, high refractive index …

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 …

Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Graphene–silicon phase modulators with gigahertz bandwidth

V Sorianello, M Midrio, G Contestabile, I Asselberghs… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The modulator is a key component in optical communications. Several graphene-based
amplitude modulators have been reported based on electro-absorption. However, graphene …

Efficient on-chip training of optical neural networks using genetic algorithm

H Zhang, J Thompson, M Gu, XD Jiang, H Cai… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in silicon photonic chips have made huge progress in optical computing
owing to their flexibility in the reconfiguration of various tasks. Its deployment of neural …

Integrated microwave photonic filters

Y Liu, A Choudhary, D Marpaung… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Microwave signal filtering is a fundamental and central functionality in radio-frequency (RF)
systems. Underpinned by advanced integrated photonics technologies, emerging integrated …

High-performance and linear thin-film lithium niobate Mach–Zehnder modulators on silicon up to 50 GHz

A Rao, A Patil, P Rabiei, A Honardoost, R DeSalvo… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Compact electro-optical modulators are demonstrated on thin films of lithium niobate on
silicon operating up to 50 GHz. The half-wave voltage length product of the high …

Wide-steering-angle high-resolution optical phased array

Y Li, B Chen, Q Na, Q Xie, M Tao, L Zhang, Z Zhi… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optical phased array (OPA) technology is considered a promising solution for solid-state
beam steering to supersede the traditional mechanical beam steering. As a key component …

Integration of III-V lasers on Si for Si photonics

M Tang, JS Park, Z Wang, S Chen, P Jurczak… - Progress in Quantum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of Si photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has been impeded due to lack
of efficient Si-based light-emitting sources. Because of their indirect bandgap, bulk Ge and …