Recent breakthroughs in carrier depletion based silicon optical modulators

GT Reed, GZ Mashanovich, FY Gardes… - …, 2014 - degruyter.com
The majority of the most successful optical modulators in silicon demonstrated in recent
years operate via the plasma dispersion effect and are more specifically based upon free …

Development trends in silicon photonics for data centers

Z Zhou, R Chen, X Li, T Li - Optical Fiber Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
An explosive increase in volume of global network and data center traffic requires an
interconnection scheme with low cost, high energy efficiency, and high bandwidth capacity …

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 …

Silicon photonic platforms for mid-infrared applications

T Hu, B Dong, X Luo, TY Liow, J Song, C Lee… - Photonics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well
studied in the past decade, and now most related efforts have been progressing toward …

High-speed, low-loss silicon Mach–Zehnder modulators with doping optimization

X Xiao, H Xu, X Li, Z Li, T Chu, Y Yu, J Yu - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a high-speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) with low insertion
loss, based on the carrier depletion effect in a lateral PN junction. A 1.9 dB on-chip insertion …

Low-power thermo-optic silicon modulator for large-scale photonic integrated systems

SW Chung, M Nakai, H Hashemi - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Silicon platform enables the monolithic realization of large-scale photonic integrated
systems. Many emerging applications facilitated by silicon photonics such as optical …

A 25 Gbps silicon microring modulator based on an interleaved junction

JC Rosenberg, WMJ Green, S Assefa, DM Gill… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A silicon microring modulator utilizing an interleaved pn junction phase shifter with a V_πL
of 0.76 V-cm and a minimum off-resonance insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB is …

Low Vπ Silicon photonics modulators with highly linear epitaxially grown phase shifters

SS Azadeh, F Merget, S Romero-García… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report on the design of Silicon Mach-Zehnder carrier depletion modulators relying on
epitaxially grown vertical junction diodes. Unprecedented spatial control over doping …

Ultracompact silicon-conductive oxide nanocavity modulator with 0.02 lambda-cubic active volume

E Li, Q Gao, RT Chen, AX Wang - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Silicon photonic modulators rely on the plasma dispersion effect by free-carrier injection or
depletion, which can only induce moderate refractive index perturbation. Therefore, the size …

High-speed silicon modulator with slow-wave electrodes and fully independent differential drive

R Ding, Y Liu, Y Ma, Y Yang, Q Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a fully independent differential-drive capable of traveling-wave modulator
in silicon using slow-wave transmission line electrode. The reported 3.5-mm device …