{"id":236121,"date":"2026-04-29T06:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/team-develops-modulator-for-compact-photonic-integrated-circuits"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:56","slug":"team-develops-modulator-for-compact-photonic-integrated-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/team-develops-modulator-for-compact-photonic-integrated-circuits","title":{"rendered":"Team develops modulator for compact photonic integrated circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-modulator-for-compact-photonic-integrated-circuits3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Skoltech have developed an ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on silicon photonics and plasmonics that enables high-efficiency optical signal control within a small device footprint. The development could find applications in optical communication systems, analog-to-digital conversion, as well as in devices for generating and processing ultra-high-frequency signals based on photonic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.37188\/lam.2026.067\" target=\"_blank\">work<\/a> was published in the journal Light: Advanced Manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed device uses a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-quantum-chip.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">multimode silicon waveguide<\/a> of about 7 micrometers in width and 220 nanometers in thickness, with a thin layer of indium tin oxide on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Skoltech have developed an ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on silicon photonics and plasmonics that enables high-efficiency optical signal control within a small device footprint. The development could find applications in optical communication systems, analog-to-digital conversion, as well as in devices for generating and processing ultra-high-frequency signals based on photonic technologies. The work was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}