A Guide for Material and Design Choices for Electro-Optic Modulators and recent 2D-Material Silicon Modulator Demonstrations
Abstract
Electro-optic modulation performs a technological relevant functionality such as for communication, beam steering, or neuromorphic computing through providing the nonlinear activation function of a perceptron. Wile Silicon photonics enabled the integration and hence miniaturization of optoelectronic devices, the weak electro-optic performance of Silicon renders these modulators to be bulky and power-hungry compared to a single switch functionality known from electronics. To gain deeper insights into the physics and operation of modulators hetero-generous integration of emerging electro-optically active materials could enable separating light passive and low-loss light routing from active light manipulation. Here we discuss and review our recent work on a) fundamental performance vectors of electro-optic modulators, and b) showcase recent development of heterogeneous-integrated emerging EO materials into Si-photonics to include an ITO-based MZM, a Graphene hybrid-plasmon and the first TMD-MRR modulator using a microring resonator. Our results indicate a viable path for energy efficient and compact Silicon photonic based modulators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.11096,
title = {A Guide for Material and Design Choices for Electro-Optic Modulators and recent 2D-Material Silicon Modulator Demonstrations},
author = {Rubab Amin and Mario Zhizhen and Rishi Maiti and Mario Miscuglio and Hamed Dalir and Jacob B. Khurgin and Volker J. Sorger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11096},
year = {2019}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1801.05046