Silicon integrated nanophotonic devices for on-chip multi-mode interconnects

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

State-of-the-art and perspectives on silicon waveguide crossings: A review

S Wu, X Mu, L Cheng, S Mao, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, silicon photonics has witnessed a ramp-up of investment in both
research and industry. As a basic building block, silicon waveguide crossing is inevitable for …

A compact and polarization-insensitive silicon waveguide crossing based on subwavelength grating MMI couplers

S Wu, S Mao, L Zhou, L Liu, Y Chen, X Mu, L Cheng… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated a compact and low polarization-
dependent silicon waveguide crossing based on subwavelength grating multimode …

Temperature-insensitive and low-loss single-mode silicon waveguide crossing covering all optical communication bands enabled by curved anisotropic metamaterial

J Zhang, L Xu, D Mao, Y D'Mello, Z Wei, W Li… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
We propose two designs of low-loss and temperature-insensitive single-mode waveguide
crossing on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform with 415-nm operation bandwidth covering all …

Subwavelength-structure-assisted ultracompact polarization-handling components on silicon

Z Yu, H Xu, D Liu, H Li, Y Shi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonic integrated circuits with the abilities of large-scale integration and low-cost
fabrication are one of the most promising technologies for various emerging applications …

A broadband, low-crosstalk and low polarization dependent silicon nitride waveguide crossing based on the multimode-interference

H Yang, P Zheng, G Hu, R Zhang, B Yun, Y Cui - Optics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
A silicon nitride waveguide crossing based on multimode-interference is designed and
fabricated. By optimizing the structure parameters with finite difference time domain method …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization-insensitive silicon optic switch based on mode manipulated power splitters and phase shifters

S Zhao, J Chen, D Dai, Y Shi - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A polarization-insensitive thermo-optic switch is proposed and demonstrated on the silicon-
on-insulator platform with a 220 nm silicon core layer. The present device is based on the …

Polarization-insensitive multimode interference coupler based on a subwavelength grating structure

R Liu, W Zhao, Z Yu, D Dai - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A multimode interference (MMI) coupler is one of the basic components for photonic
integrated circuits. However, MMI couplers realized by conventional waveguides are …

Ultra-compact and polarization-insensitive silicon waveguide 3× 3 star-crossing based on composite subwavelength grating metamaterials

Q Yu, Z Guo, J Zhu, L Zhang, P Hao, J Xiao, T Feng… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We present what we believe is the first report on a polarization-insensitive 3?×? 3 silicon star-
crossing utilizing a composite subwavelength metamaterial waveguide structure. Two …

Ultra-low loss SOI waveguide crossings designed by a hybrid global optimization based on deep learning

W Lu, H Shi, C Ma, Z Li, S Zhu, Y Wu, R Tai - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
We demonstrate an ultra-low loss single-mode silicon waveguide crossing and an ultra-
compact and ultra-low loss polarization-insensitive silicon waveguide crossing using a …