Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

On-chip nanophotonic devices are a class of devices capable of controlling light on a chip to
realize performance advantages over ordinary building blocks of integrated photonics …

A broadband, low-loss and polarization-insensitive 3 dB optical power splitter based on
adiabatic tapered silicon waveguides is proposed and investigated. 3D-FDTD simulation …

Adiabatic Y-junction power splitters have low loss, large bandwidth, high polarization
insensitivity, and high tolerance to fabrication errors. However, the adiabatic transition …

We propose and demonstrate two types of 1?×? 2 power splitters based on multimode
interference (MMI), which are ultra-compact, fabrication friendly, and low loss. The contours …

In this paper, a novel design of a 1× N multimode-interference power splitter is proposed
and investigated. By using the finite difference time domain method and particle swarm …

Modern systems often provide complex functionality that can be realized by tailoring
together elements of simpler functionality. Multiplicity of simple optical functions (response …

In this paper, a silicon rich nitride–lithium niobate on insulator hybrid platform with
waveguides and several key components is proposed. The propagation loss of the silicon …

Low-loss and misalignment-tolerant fiber-to-chip edge coupler based on double-tip inverse
tapers Page 1 M2I.6.pdf OFC 2016 © OSA 2016 Low-loss and misalignment-tolerant fiber-to-chip …

Vanadium dioxide (VO_2) is a metal-insulator transition (MIT) oxide recently used in
plasmonics, metamaterials, and reconfigurable photonics. Because of the MIT, VO_2 shows …