Optical modulators are vital for many applications, including telecommunication, data
communication, optical computing, and microwave photonic links. A compact modulator with …

Electro-optic modulation at frequencies of 100 GHz and beyond is important for photonic-
electronic signal processing at the highest speeds. To date, however, only a small number of …

Energy-efficient electro-optic modulators are at the heart of short-reach optical interconnects,
and silicon photonics is considered the leading technology for realizing such devices …

Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit
strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase …

In recent decades, much research effort has been invested in the development of photonic
integrated circuits, and silicon-on-insulator technology has been established as a reliable …

Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic
integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be …

Electro-optic (EO) modulators rely on the interaction of optical and electrical signals with
second-order nonlinear media. For the optical signal, this interaction can be strongly …

Organic materials combined with strongly guiding silicon waveguides open the route to
highly efficient electro-optical devices. Modulators based on the so-called silicon-organic …

We report on the hybrid integration of silicon-on-insulator slot waveguides with organic
electro-optic materials. We investigate and compare a polymer composite, a dendron-based …

We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators
(MZM) with low phase-shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 µm-long phase shifters …