Digital nanophotonics: The highway to the integration of subwavelength-scale photonics: Ultra-compact, multi-function nanophotonic design based on computational …

J Huang, H Ma, D Chen, H Yuan, J Zhang, Z Li… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonic devices with high densities are extremely attractive because they can
potentially merge photonics and electronics at the nanoscale. However, traditional …

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 …

Advances in silicon quantum photonics

JC Adcock, J Bao, Y Chi, X Chen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum technology is poised to enable a step change in human capability for computing,
communications and sensing. Photons are indispensable as carriers of quantum information …

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 …

Inverse-designed linear coherent photonic networks for high-resolution spectral reconstruction

Y Li, Z Zhang, Y Wang, Y Yu, X Zhou, HK Tsang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Miniaturized spectrometers on an integrated chip have many applications, such as material
discrimination and portable sensing. However, it is challenging to achieve high resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse design of a binary waveguide crossing by the particle swarm optimization algorithm

K Goudarzi, M Lee - Results in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper describes the inverse design of the particle swarm optimization algorithm
combined with the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulation to design a …

Inverse design of free-form devices with fabrication-friendly topologies based on structure transformation

Y Chen, J Qiu, Z Dong, L Wang, Y Liu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In order to improve the fabrication robustness of the inverse-designed devices that have
complex topology structures, we propose an optimization technique, named as structure …

Low-loss, low-crosstalk waveguide crossing for scalable integrated silicon photonics applications

M Johnson, MG Thompson, D Sahin - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A waveguide crossing based on multi-mode interference is designed and experimentally
characterized on the silicon platform. The insertion loss of the device is measured as 43±4 …

Inverse design of asymmetric Y-junctions for ultra-compact, broadband, and low crosstalk mode (de) multiplexers

Q Wang, W Wang, R Sun, P Yu, H Qiu, R Cheng - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Asymmetric Y-junctions, compared with mode coupling-based devices, possess
considerably smaller wavelength dependence and thus are more promising for ultra …