Silicon nitride in silicon photonics

DJ Blumenthal, R Heideman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) planar waveguide platform has enabled a broad class of low-
loss planar-integrated devices and chip-scale solutions that benefit from transparency over a …

Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications

D Sun, Y Zhang, D Wang, W Song, X Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, integrated photonics has attracted considerable interest owing to its wide
application in optical communication and quantum technologies. Among the numerous …

Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators

M Tan, X Xu, J Wu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent work on narrowband orthogonally polarized optical RF single sideband
generators as well as dual-channel equalization, both based on high-Q integrated ring …

Compact optical convolution processing unit based on multimode interference

X Meng, G Zhang, N Shi, G Li, J Azaña… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks are an important category of deep learning, currently facing
the limitations of electrical frequency and memory access time in massive data processing …

Nonvolatile programmable silicon photonics using an ultralow-loss Sb2Se3 phase change material

M Delaney, I Zeimpekis, H Du, X Yan, M Banakar… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The next generation of silicon-based photonic processors and neural and quantum networks
need to be adaptable, reconfigurable, and programmable. Phase change technology offers …

Ultra-low loss quantum photonic circuits integrated with single quantum emitters

A Chanana, H Larocque, R Moreira, J Carolan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The scaling of many photonic quantum information processing systems is ultimately limited
by the flux of quantum light throughout an integrated photonic circuit. Source brightness and …

Microwave photonic radars

S Pan, Y Zhang - Journal of Lightwave technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
As the only method for all-weather, all-time and long-distance target detection and
recognition, radar has been intensively studied since it was invented, and is considered as …

Reprogrammable electro-optic nonlinear activation functions for optical neural networks

IAD Williamson, TW Hughes, M Minkov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical
neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of …

Multipurpose silicon photonics signal processor core

D Pérez, I Gasulla, L Crudgington, DJ Thomson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Integrated photonics changes the scaling laws of information and communication systems
offering architectural choices that combine photonics with electronics to optimize …

Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation and dual-channel equalization based on an integrated microring resonator

X Xu, J Wu, M Tan, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate narrowband orthogonally polarized optical radio frequency (RF) single
sideband generation as well as dual-channel equalization based on an integrated dual …