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 …

Silicon nitride waveguide devices based on gradient-index lenses implemented by subwavelength silicon grating metamaterials

SH Badri, MM Gilarlue - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The rapid development of photonic integrated circuits demands the design of efficient and
compact waveguide devices such as waveguide tapers and crossings. Some components in …

Ultra‐Broadband Multimode Waveguide Crossing via Subwavelength Transmitarray with Bound State

X Guo, Z Wang, Y Zhang, Y Liu, Z Zhang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a fundamental building block for photonic integrated circuits, waveguide crossing is
playing an essential role for routing the increasingly complex network on chip. Driven by the …

Key multimode silicon photonic devices inspired by geometrical optics

C Sun, Y Ding, Z Li, W Qi, Y Yu, X Zhang - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
On-chip optical interconnect has been widely accepted as a promising technology to realize
future large-scale multiprocessors. Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) provides a new …

Direct-access mode-division multiplexing switch for scalable on-chip multi-mode networks

H Xu, C Liu, D Dai, Y Shi - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
By leveraging mode-division multiplexing (MDM), capacity of on-chip photonic interconnects
can be scaled up to an unprecedented level. The demand for dynamic control of mode …

Ultra-thin silicon-on-insulator waveguide bend based on truncated Eaton lens implemented by varying the guiding layer thickness

SH Badri, MM Gilarlue, SG Gavgani - Photonics and Nanostructures …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides with different geometries have been
employed to design various integrated optical components. Reducing the bending radius of …

Coupling between silicon waveguide and metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide with lens-funnel structure

SH Badri, MM Gilarlue - Plasmonics, 2020 - Springer
Various photonic integrated components have been implemented by ultra-thin silicon-on-
insulator (SOI) waveguides; therefore, it is desirable to couple ultra-thin SOI waveguides to …

Ultrashort waveguide tapers based on Luneburg lens

SH Badri, MM Gilarlue - Journal of Optics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In integrated photonic circuits, silicon-on-insulator waveguides with different geometries
have been employed to realize a variety of components. Therefore, efficient coupling of two …

Photonic crystal waveguide crossing based on transformation optics

MM Gilarlue, SH Badri - Optics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
The absolute instruments like the Maxwell's fisheye (MFE) lens with aberration-free imaging
properties have found interesting applications such as waveguide crossing. The flat …

Scalable two-mode 3-port and 4-port mode insensitive silicon photonic switches

A Das, G Zhang, HR Mojaver… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel design approach for scalable 3-port
and 4-port mode insensitive multimode switching matrices for the first two quasi-transverse …