[HTML][HTML] Plasmonic, photonic, or hybrid? Reviewing waveguide geometries for electro-optic modulators

A Messner, D Moor, D Chelladurai, R Svoboda… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are key elements in high-speed optical telecommunication links
and preferably rely on materials with a linear electro-optic effect. Choosing adequate …

High-performance coherent optical modulators based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

M Xu, M He, H Zhang, J Jian, Y Pan, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

Resonant plasmonic micro-racetrack modulators with high bandwidth and high temperature tolerance

M Eppenberger, A Messner, BI Bitachon, W Heni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Resonant modulators encode electrical data onto wavelength-multiplexed optical carriers.
Today, silicon microring modulators are perceived as promising to implement such links; …

Neuromorphic photonic technologies and architectures: scaling opportunities and performance frontiers

G Dabos, DV Bellas, R Stabile… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review different technologies and architectures for neuromorphic photonic accelerators,
spanning from bulk optics to photonic-integrated-circuits (PICs), and assess compute …

A BaTiO3-Based Electro-Optic Pockels Modulator Monolithically Integrated on an Advanced Silicon Photonics Platform

F Eltes, C Mai, D Caimi, M Kroh, Y Popoff… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
To develop a new generation of high-speed photonic modulators on silicon-technology-
based photonics, new materials with large Pockels coefficients have been transferred to …

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 …

Plasmonic IQ modulators with attojoule per bit electrical energy consumption

W Heni, Y Fedoryshyn, B Baeuerle, A Josten… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coherent optical communications provides the largest data transmission capacity with the
highest spectral efficiency and therefore has a remarkable potential to satisfy today's ever …

Compact and ultra-efficient broadband plasmonic terahertz field detector

Y Salamin, IC Benea-Chelmus, Y Fedoryshyn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Terahertz sources and detectors have enabled numerous new applications from medical to
communications. Yet, most efficient terahertz detection schemes rely on complex free-space …

Pockels modulation in integrated nanophotonics

M Thomaschewski, SI Bozhevolnyi - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators provide the electrical control of the intensity, frequency, and phase
of an optical signal. They became an indispensable part of our telecommunication network …

100-GBd waveguide Bragg grating modulator in thin-film lithium niobate

D Pohl, A Messner, F Kaufmann… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated electro-optic modulator based on a waveguide Bragg grating in thin-film
lithium niobate is introduced. The compact device with a footprint of 10× 400 μm2 displays …