Foundry Manufactured 6-bit Resolution, 150μm Long Slow-Light Electro-Optic Modulator for On-Chip Photonic Tensor Computing
Meng Zhang, Amir Begović, Dennis Yin, Nicholas W. Gangi, Jiaqi Gu, Zhaoran Huang · 2024
We demonstrate 6-bit DAC resolution with an ultra-compact slow-light electro-optic modulator. The 10× modulation length reduction enables 31× compute density, 1.17× energy efficiency, and 36.1× energy efficiency per unit area for photonic tensor computing.