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Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) platforms exhibit exceptional electro-optic (EO) properties, including high-speed operation, low energy consumption, and compact footprints. However, the absence of a scalable poling method for EO polymers,…

Over the last two decades, spatial light modulators (SLMs) have revolutionised our ability to shape optical fields. They grant independent dynamic control over thousands of degrees-of-freedom within a single light beam. In this work we test…

With the increasing need for large volumes of data processing, transport, and storage, optimizing the trade-off between high-speed and energy consumption in today's optoelectronic devices is getting increasingly difficult. Heterogeneous…

Rapid and programmable shaping of light fields is central to modern microscopy, display technologies, optical communications and sensing, quantum engineering, and quantum information processing. Current wavefront shaping technologies face a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xin Wei , Zeyang Li , Abhishek V. Karve , Adam L. Shaw , David I. Schuster , Jonathan Simon

Electro-optic modulators from non-linear $\chi^{(2)}$ materials are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications because they link the optical domain with the microwave domain. At present, most geometries are suited for fiber…

A microring depletion modulator is demonstrated with T-shaped lateral p-n junctions used to realize efficient modulation while maximizing the RC limited bandwidth. The device having a 3 dB bandwidth of 13 GHz has been fabricated in a…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-30 Luca Alloatti , Dinis Cheian , Rajeev Jagga Ram

Modulating retroreflectors (MRRs) offer a promising pathway to low-complexity and energy efficient asymmetric optical inter-satellite link (OISL) for small spacecrafts, such as CubeSats. In this paper, we develop a unified statistical…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Makafui Avevor , Hossein Safi , Harald Haas , Iman Tavakkolnia

Waveguide integrated optical modulators in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range are of significant interest for molecular spectroscopy in one hand, as on-chip synchronous detection can improve the performance of detection systems, and…

Optical modulators are required to have high modulation bandwidths and a compact footprint. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate a novel Si/In$_2$O$_3$ hybrid plasmonic waveguide modulator, which is realized by an asymmetric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Yishu Huang , Jun Zheng , Bingcheng Pan , Lijia Song , Guanan Chen , Zejie Yu , Hui Ye , Daoxin Dai

The coaxial cables commonly used to connect RF coil arrays with the control console of an MRI scanner are susceptible to electromagnetic coupling. As the number of RF channel increases, such coupling could result in severe heating and pose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Mingdong Fan , Robert W. Brown , Xi Gao , Soumyajit Mandal , Labros Petropoulos , Xiaoyu Yang , Shinya Handa , Hiroyuki Fujita

We report an optical link on silicon using micrometer-scale ring-resonator enhanced silicon modulators and waveguide-integrated germanium photodetectors. We show 3 Gbps operation of the link with 0.5 V modulator voltage swing and 1.0 V…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Long Chen , Kyle Preston , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Michal Lipson

We proposed a new approach, which is inspired by the method of super-resolution (SR) structured illumination microscopy (SIM) for overcoming the resolution limit in microscopy due to diffraction of light, for increasing the resolution of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Youdong Lang , Qingguo Xie , Chien-Min Kao

A high-modulation-efficiency optical modulator integrated on silicon (Si) is a key enabler for low-power and high-capacity optical interconnects. However, Si-based optical modulators suffer from low phase modulation efficiency owing to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-18 Jae-Hoon Han , Frederic Boeuf , Shinichi Takagi , Mitsuru Takenaka

Silicon nitride (SiN) is emerging as a competitive platform for CMOS-compatible integrated photonics. However, active devices such as modulators are scarce and still lack in performance. Ideally, such a modulator should have a high…

Optical modulators are essential building blocks for high-capacity optical communication and massively parallel computing. Among all types of optical modulators, travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators (TW-MZMs) featuring high speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Shuyi Li , Wei Luo , Zhenyu Li , Junqiu Liu

Achieving nonreciprocal light propagation in photonic circuits is essential to control signal crosstalk and optical back-scatter. However, realizing high-fidelity nonreciprocity in low-loss integrated photonic systems remains challenging.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Eric A. Kittlaus , Nils T. Otterstrom , Prashanta Kharel , Shai Gertler , Peter T. Rakich

This study employs a uniform rectangular array (URA) sub-connected hybrid beamforming (SC-HBF) architecture to provide a novel self-interference (SI) suppression scheme in a full-duplex (FD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Mobeen Mahmood , Yuanxing Zhang , Robert Morawski , Tho Le-Ngoc

The 2-{\mu}m waveband, emerging as a highly promising candidate for optical communication, offers an extended wavelength window for high-speed optical transmission. Despite its potential, the development of integrated electro-optic (E/O)…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-06 Chao Luan , Deming Kong , Yunhong Ding , Hao Hu

Silicon-organic hybrid integrated devices have emerging applications ranging from high-speed optical interconnects to photonic electromagnetic-field sensors. Silicon slot photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) filled with electro-optic (EO)…

Programmable spatiotemporal control of light is crucial for advancements in optical communications, imaging, and quantum technologies. Commercial spatial light modulators (SLMs) typically have megapixel-scale apertures but are limited to…