We demonstrate for the first time a fully integrated electro-optic modulator based on locally
strained silicon rib-waveguides. By depositing a Si_3N_4 strain layer directly on top of the …

Optical data links are the backbone of today’s telecommunication infrastructure. The integration
of electronic and optic components on one chip is one of the most attractive routes to …

Organic materials combined with strongly guiding silicon waveguides open the route to highly
efficient electro-optical devices. Modulators based on the so-called silicon-organic hybrid (…

Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic
integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be …

The volatile anaesthetics sevoflurane and desflurane feature new and promising properties.
Their low blood and tissue solubility enables rapid onset of and emergence from …

Metal-halide perovskites are promising lasing materials for the realization of monolithically
integrated laser sources, the key components of silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs). …

We present all-optical switching in oxygen ion implanted silicon microring resonators. Time-dependent
signal modulation is achieved by shifting resonance wavelengths of microrings …

An improved mold fabrication process that utilizes toluene diluted polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
as flexible mold material was developed. Various toluene concentrations and their …

We demonstrate compact highly efficient broadband strip-to-slot mode converters in silicon
with record-low losses of 0.02 ( $\pm$ 0.02) dB and negligible reflections between 1480 nm …

We report on a silicon-organic hybrid modulator based on a Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI)
operating at 10 Gbit/s with an energy consumption of 320 fJ/bit. The device consists of a …