Silicon Photonic Modulators at Reduced Drive Voltage: A Benchmark Across Three Foundry Platforms

Authors

  • Gabriela-M Cimpean Centre for Applied Photonics, Buzau Centre for Emerging Materials, Buzau, Romania Author
  • Hilaire Gaillardet Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Vexin Institute of Advanced Technology, Gisors, France Author
  • Alojz Fabry Department of Optical Engineering, Horehronie Institute of Advanced Technology, Brezno, Slovakia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22672754

Keywords:

Silicon Photonic Modulators at Reduced Drive Voltage; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Silicon Photonic Modulators at Reduced Drive Voltage has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for silicon photonic modulators at reduced drive voltage, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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