Silicon has properties that make it the preferable semiconductor material for realizing a wide
suite of electronic devices. In this paper, all basic optical logic operations, including XOR …

A novel direct-binary-search algorithm for the design of fabrication-tolerant photonic-crystal-
like subwavelength structures is proposed. In the proposed method, structures based on …

Adiabatic multimode Y-junctions are extensively used for the design of multimode silicon
photonics devices due to their straightforward principle in achieving mode splitting and …

Data exchange between different data channels can offer more flexible and advanced
functions for many optical networks. In this paper, we propose a switchable and …

A novel power-efficient reconfigurable mode converter is proposed and experimentally
demonstrated based on cross-connected symmetric Y-junctions assisted by thermo-optic …

A polarization-insensitive waveguide crossing based on multimode interference (MMI)
couplers is proposed and demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. By utilizing …

Mode multiplexing technique is a new promising option to increase the transmission
capacity of on-chip optical interconnects. Multimode waveguide crossings are the key …

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in chip-scale photonics is paramount to sustain data
capacity growth and reduce power consumption. However, its scalability hinges on …

Multimode silicon photonics is promising to further increase the link capacity of optical
interconnects thus attract more and more attention. Moreover, the introduction of higher …

Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) is a technique used over the past decade in Silicon
Photonics (SiPh) to incorporate more data into communication links by employing higher …