Everything about Optical modulator

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Optical modulatorA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Silicon nitride stress-optic microresonator modulator for optical control applicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: LANDSAT-4 thematic mapper modulation transfer function (MTF) evaluationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A graphene-based broadband optical modulatorCited 3,209 times
5. Go sideways: Optical modulators using semiconductor nano-structuresA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Electro-optic modulatorA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A graphene-based broadband optical modulator

  Ming Liu, Xiaobo Yin, Erick Ulin-Avila · 2011 · Nature · 3,209 citations

• Double-Layer Graphene Optical Modulator

  Ming Liu, Xiaobo Yin, Xiang Zhang · 2012 · Nano Letters · 755 citations

• Ultrafast All-Optical Graphene Modulator

  Wei Li, Bigeng Chen, Chao Meng · 2014 · Nano Letters · 695 citations

• Deformable grating optical modulator

  O. Solgaard, F. S. A. Sandejas, D. M. Bloom · 1992 · Optics Letters · 243 citations

• Quantum Coherence in an Optical Modulator

  S. G. Carter, V. Birkedal, C. S. Wang · 2005 · Science · 111 citations

• Microwave integrated optical modulator

  Peter S. Cross, Richard A. Baumgartner, Brian H. Kolner · 1984 · Applied Physics Letters · 38 citations

• Hybrid plasmonic electro-optical modulator

  Aya O. Zaki, Khaled Kirah, Mohamed A. Swillam · 2016 · Applied Physics A · 37 citations

• Ultra-Broadband All-Optical Graphene Modulator

  Y. Liao, Guoying Feng, H. Zhou · 2018 · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 34 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Silicon nitride stress-optic microresonator modulator for optical control applications

  Jiawei Wang, Kaikai Liu, Mark W. Harrington · 2022 · Optics Express · 66 citations

• Integrated ultra‐high‐performance graphene optical modulator

  Elham Heidari, Hamed Dalir, Farzad Mokhtari Koushyar · 2022 · Nanophotonics · 52 citations

• Sea‐Urchin‐MnO2 for Broadband Optical Modulator

  Yueheng Han, Xiaohui Li, Enci Chen · 2022 · Advanced Optical Materials · 34 citations

• 300-Gbps optical interconnection using neural-network based silicon microring modulator

  Fangchen Hu, Yuguang Zhang, Hongguang Zhang · 2023 · Communications Engineering · 33 citations

• Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Interconnects With Thin Film Lithium Niobate Modulator

  Xiansong Fang, Fan Yang, Xinyu Chen · 2023 · Journal of Lightwave Technology · 29 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕LANDSAT-4 thematic mapper modulation transfer function (MTF) evaluationRobert A. Schowengerdt · 1983
• MetamaterialsTie Jun Cui · 2010
• 📕Optical ModulationLe Nguyen Binh · 2017
• 📕Broadband optical modulatorsAntao Chen, Edmond J. Murphy · 2012
• Nonlinear guided waves and their applicationsIEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, Osa · 1999
• Visible Light CommunicationsZhaocheng Wang, Qi Wang · 2017
• Integrated fiber-optic receiversAaron Buchwald · 1995
• Phase-Modulated Optical Communication SystemsKeang-Po Ho · 2005

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