PRESENTATION

Accelerating high-speed electro-optical interconnects utilizing Silicon-organic electro-optic modulators

The development of faster ethernet transceivers with data rates of 800 Gbit/s and beyond has become one of the major challenges in order to cope with the continuously growing global data sphere. By combining established silicon photonics with tailor-made, high-efficient organic materials in the so called “Silicon-Organic-Hybrid” (SOH) approach, electro-optic modulators with single lane-speeds above 130 GBd and sub-volt drive-voltages have been realized. Utilizing novel material concepts, SOH-devices do not only exhibit an unmatched performance, but also feature long-term stability, rendering this technology perfectly suited for next generation ethernet transceivers.