Over the past years, global data traffic has experienced a boom, with over 12.5 billion connected devices all over the world. The current world-wide deployment of the 5G telecommunications standard is ...

A semiconductor diode that modulates light from a laser that is separate from it, but may be fabricated on the same wafer. Turning the current on causes absorption of the light. See fiber optics ...

Achieving a net data rate of 400Gb/s per lane, imec’s GeSi EAM heralds a new generation of compact, high-bandwidth, low-latency, and energy-efficient modulators – tailored for short-reach, scale-up ...

A tiny GeSi electro-absorption modulator with energy consumption at the femtojoule-per-bit level represents a step towards bringing photonics ever closer to computer chips. The demand for data ...

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 ...

Photonic specialists CIP Technologies has released a combined modulation and photo-detection transducer capable of working at up to 60 GHz, which the company claims is a world first. Photonic ...

Imec has demo-ed a beyond-110GHz C-band GeSi electro-absorption modulator, fabricated on its 300mm silicon photonics platform. Achieving a net data rate of 400Gb/s per lane and optimized for ...

The EAM2010 InP electro-absorption modulator provides up to +10-dBm output power and is designed for 10-Gbps optical networking equipment designs. Provided in a 0.75 x 0.5-in half-butterfly package, ...

…and Photon Bridge launches multi-material platform with PIC in prototypes for compact PON transceivers. imec has formed a 110GHz-plus C-band GeSi EAM on its 300mm SiPh platform. Nanoelectronics ...