Compound Semiconductor

Photon Design adds silicon modulator design to HAROLD tool

Photon Design, a developer of photonic simulation CAD software, has added a silicon modulator design capability to its HAROLD ...
Nature

On Chip Optical Modulator using Epsilon-Near-Zero Hybrid Plasmonic Platform

In this work, we propose a micro-scale modulator architecture with compact size, low insertion loss, high extinction ratio, and low energy/bit while being compatible with the silicon-on-insulator (SOI ...
Nature

Arrayed electro-optic modulators for novel WDM multiplexing

In this paper, a novel silicon-on-chip integrated 4 × 1 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) multiplexer has been developed. This is the first time that the multiplexer design incorporates arrayed ...
EDN

Tutorial on Designing Delta-Sigma Modulators: Part 1

The transition from second-generation (2G) to third-generation (3G) wireless cellular systems requires multi-standard adaptability in a wireless receiver. An important answer to this request is the ...
Nasdaq

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Achieve Breakthrough in 400G/Lane Silicon Photonics Platform for Next-Generation Optical Communications

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor have announced a successful demonstration of a 400G/lane modulator on Tower's silicon photonics platform, PH18DA, which achieves over a 3.5dB extinction ratio using ...
Nasdaq

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Demonstrate 400G/lane Modulators Built on Silicon Photonic Wafers for Data Centers and AI Optical Connectivity

Innovation paves the way for a high-volume, silicon photonics 400G/lane platform to meet next-generation 3.2T optical communication architectures for datacom and AI applications. The integrated ...
EDN

Design an all-digital modulator with an RF output

A software-defined radio (SDR) terminal promotes programmable realizations of the physical layer functionalities. A lot of research work has been done in applying DSPs and FPGAs to implement the ...
Optics

Photon Design enables TFLN, Mach-Zehnder Modulator simulations, within a single design environment

Oxford, OK -- Photon Design, a global leader in photonic simulation CAD software, enables rigorous 3D simulations of entire, Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN), Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM’s), within a ...
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 ...
Radio World

Phasing Quadrature Amplification

Two things have been overlooked with phasing amplitude modulation. One is the importance of pulse modulation; the other is that logic gates can be used for analog signal processing. Both of these ...
Electronic Design

RF Quadrature Modulator Operates From 100 MHz To 1 GHz

CML Microcircuits unveiled a new I/Q modulator in its family of RF integrated circuits. The CMX993 is a highly integrated, general-purpose RF quadrature modulator that operates between 100 MHz to 1 ...