All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.
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Optical modulator driver offers lowest power, form factor

Ideal for 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s Mach-Zehnder optical modulator driver applications, the HMC5850BG driver amplifier is offered as the industry’s lowest power (at 1 W) and smallest form factor SMT ...

Tiny optical modulator could enable giant future quantum computers

Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the ...
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The Magneto-Optic Modulator

Many state-of-the-art technologies work at incredibly low temperatures. Superconducting microprocessors and quantum computers promise to revolutionize computation, but scientists need to keep them ...
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HyperLight Demonstrates an Integrated Optical Engine Capable of Pushing Data at Terabits per Second with Reduced Power Consumption

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Engineers from HyperLight, a leader in the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), have achieved breakthrough ...
Electronic Design

Standard CMOS Yields Integrated Photonic 100-Gb/s Optical Modulator

Due to materials realities and device physics, it’s challenging to develop high-performance optical transceiver functions on standard CMOS processes, but the potential benefits of such photonic ...
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NTT Achieves the World's Fastest Optical Transmission of over 2 Tbits/s Per Wavelength

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Corporation (President and CEO: Akira Shimada, “NTT”) has succeeded in the world’s fastest 1 optical transmission experiment of digital coherent 2 optical signals exceeding ...
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Demonstration of a highly efficient modulator using the organic electro-optic polymer for visible light

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has successfully developed a highly efficient optical modulator using the organic ...
Optics

RF Drivers for LiNbO3 Modulators

LASER COMPONENTS’ offers matching component RF drivers from iXblue for their LiNbO 3 modulators. They are optimised for targeted modulation, by assembling these components together the desired optical ...
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Digital to analog in one smooth step: Device could replace signal modulators in fiber-optic networks

Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have ...
Optics

Lithium niobate device could replace signal modulators in optical networks

Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have ...