First demonstration of a silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator based on a long-term-stable crosslinked electro-optic material

We demonstrate the first silicon-organic hybrid electro-optic modulator relying on a long-term-stable thermally crosslinked organic electro-optic material. After more than 2200 hours of high-temper-ature storage at 120°C, the device still operates at line rates of 200 Gbit/s PAM4 and 100 Gbit/s OOK.