David J. Thomson

TL;DR: The techniques that have, and will, be used to implement silicon optical modulators, as well as the outlook for these devices, and the candidate solutions of the future are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview and outlook for the silicon waveguide platform, optical sources, optical modulators, photodetectors, integration approaches, packaging, applications of silicon photonics and approaches required to satisfy applications at mid-infrared wavelengths.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the first optical modulation at 50 Gb/s with a 3.1dB extinction ratio obtained from carrier depletion based phase shifter incorporated in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

TL;DR: A reconfigurable but simple silicon waveguide mesh with different functionalities with a simple seven hexagonal cell structure is demonstrated, which can be applied to different fields including communications, chemical and biomedical sensing, signal processing, multiprocessor networks, and quantum information systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a phase shifter with extinction ratios of up to 10dB and 3.5dB was demonstrated for 40Gbit/s with the same number of phase shifters.