Multimode silicon-indium tin oxide electro-optical modulators for energy-efficient, high-density signal routing across optical interconnects

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136897

"electro-optical modulators' single-mode waveguides have severe spatial density/ insertion loss when scaled across dense photonic ICs... overcome leveraging strong epsilon-near-0 electro-absorption effect achieving efficient optical phase/ amplitude modulation across multiple spatial channels simultaneously... reduces optical routing networks' footprint/ maintains low signal cross-talk... scalable CMOS integration... high-bandwidth optical computing interconnect backplanes for data centers/ co-packaged optics"