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 …

The design and characterization of a slow-wave series push-pull traveling wave silicon
photonic modulator is presented. At 2 V and 4 V reverse bias, the measured− 3 dB electro …

The wavelength band near 1300 nm is attractive for many telecommunications applications,
yet there are few results in silicon that demonstrate high-speed modulation in this band. We …

There has been great interest in the silicon platform as a material system for integrated
photonics. A key challenge is the development of a low-power, low drive voltage, broadband …

We demonstrate U-shaped silicon PN junctions for energy efficient Mach-Zehnder
modulators and ring modulators in the O-band. This type of junction has an improved …

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 …

We demonstrate a 26 Gbit/s Mach-Zehnder silicon optical modulator. The doping
concentration and profile are optimized, and a modulation efficiency with the figure of merit …

We achieved high performance high speed silicon photonics carrier-depletion Mach-
Zehnder modulation with commercial foundry by co-optimization of doping and device …

We propose a universal method for constructing N-port nonblocking optical routers based on
microring resonators. The topologies for five-, six-, seven-, and eight-port nonblocking …

Silicon photonics is poised to revolutionize several data communication applications. The
development of high performance optical modulators formed in silicon is essential for the …