Silicon-Organic Hybrid Electro-Optical Devices

Abstract

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 hybrid (SOH) platform have only recently shown frequency responses up to 100 GHz, high-speed operation beyond 112 Gbit/s with fJ/bit power consumption. In this paper, we review the SOH platform and discuss important devices such as Mach-Zehnder and IQmodulators based on the linear electro-optic effect. We further show liquid-crystal phase-shifters with a voltage-length product as low as V π L = 0.06 V·mm and sub-μW power consumption as required for slow optical switching or tuning optical filters and devices.

High speed plasmonic modulator array enabling dense optical interconnect solutions

“…The molecules align parallel to the applied field and thereby the nonlinearity r 33 is induced. Moreover, another factor two has been won by realizing the device as an unterminated open circuit [29]. This gives a factor two advantage over a terminated traveling waveguide approach, since twice the incident voltage drops across the device.…”

Sensitivity improvement of broadband electro-optic polymer-based optical phase modulator using 1D and 2D photonic crystal structures

“…The PM characteristics are modeled using a combination of the finite element method and the optical beam propagation method in both the RF and optical domains, respectively. The phase-shift simulation results show a factor of 1.7 increase in an effective EO coefficient (120 pm/V) while maintaining a broadband bandwidth of 40 GHz.OCIS The combination of silicon photonics and electro-optic (EO) polymers in optical devices enables the fabrication of high-level photonic device integration [1] using CMOS compatible nanofabrication technology [2] . The use of EO polymers allows for a large EO coefficient (r 33 ), very low dispersion, a fast response time (<1 ps), and simple fabrication [3,4] .…”

“…OCIS The combination of silicon photonics and electro-optic (EO) polymers in optical devices enables the fabrication of high-level photonic device integration [1] using CMOS compatible nanofabrication technology [2] . The use of EO polymers allows for a large EO coefficient (r 33 ), very low dispersion, a fast response time (<1 ps), and simple fabrication [3,4] .…”

All-fiber electro-optic modulator based on D-shaped twin-core fiber

“…Furthermore, EO polymer-based optical modulators offer several advantages over the mature LiNbO 3 modulators due to the exclusive properties of polymer materials [2] …”

“…Among those modulators, EO polymer modulators have demonstrated exceptional performance for an ultrahigh bandwidth and a subvolt of V π [1] . Furthermore, EO polymer-based optical modulators offer several advantages over the mature LiNbO 3 modulators due to the exclusive properties of polymer materials [2] . For the advantages of polymer materials, EO polymer modulators have shown great potential for a variety of applications, such as analog-to-digital conversion [3] , a phased-array radar [4] , electromagnetic field sensing [5] , etc.…”