Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulators add a highly efficient nonlinear organic electro-optic
cladding material to the silicon photonic platform thereby enabling efficient electro-optic
modulation. In this book the application potential of SOH modulators is investigated.
Proof-of-principle experiments show that they can be used for high-speed communications at
symbol rates up to 100 GBd and operated directly from a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
without additional driver amplifiers.
