Advances in integrated ultra-wideband electro-optic modulators

M Xu, X Cai - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Increasing data traffic and bandwidth-hungry applications require electro-optic modulators
with ultra-wide modulation bandwidth for cost-efficient optical networks. Thus far, integrated …

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 …

Directly modulated membrane lasers with 108 GHz bandwidth on a high-thermal-conductivity silicon carbide substrate

S Yamaoka, NP Diamantopoulos, H Nishi, R Nakao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasing the modulation speed of semiconductor lasers has attracted much attention from
the viewpoint of both physics and the applications of lasers. Here we propose a membrane …

Breaking the bandwidth limit of a high-quality-factor ring modulator based on thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xue, R Gan, K Chen, G Chen, Z Ruan, J Zhang, J Liu… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Growing global data traffic requires high-performance modulators with a compact size, a
large bandwidth, a low optical loss, and a small power consumption. A careful trade-off …

200 Gbps/lane IM/DD technologies for short reach optical interconnects

X Pang, O Ozolins, R Lin, L Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Client-side optics are facing an ever-increasing upgrading pace, driven by upcoming 5G
related services and datacenter applications. The demand for a single lane data rate is soon …

A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic–plasmonic high-speed transmitter

U Koch, C Uhl, H Hettrich, Y Fedoryshyn… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To address the challenge of increasing data rates, next-generation optical communication
networks will require the co-integration of electronics and photonics. Heterogeneous …

Ultrahigh-net-bitrate 363 Gbit/s PAM-8 and 279 Gbit/s polybinary optical transmission using plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator

Q Hu, R Borkowski, Y Lefevre, J Cho… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We summarize our experimental exploration of the capabilities of an ultrabroad-bandwidth
plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), in an intensity modulation and direct detection …

An integrated CMOS–silicon photonics transmitter with a 112 gigabaud transmission and picojoule per bit energy efficiency

K Li, DJ Thomson, S Liu, W Zhang, W Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The widening application of advanced digital infrastructure requires the development of
communications technologies with increased data transmission rates. However, ensuring …

Ultra-high-speed 2: 1 digital selector and plasmonic modulator IM/DD transmitter operating at 222 GBaud for intra-datacenter applications

W Heni, B Baeuerle, H Mardoyan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a 222 GBd on-off-keying transmitter in a short-reach intra-datacenter
scenario with direct detection after 120 m of standard single mode fiber. The system …

120 GBd plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with a novel differential electrode design operated at a peak-to-peak drive voltage of 178 mV

B Baeuerle, W Heni, C Hoessbacher, Y Fedoryshyn… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A new plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator is demonstrated at a bit rate of 120 Gb/s NRZ-
OOK with low peak-to-peak driving voltages of 178 mV_pp below the HD-FEC limit. Such …