The next generation of silicon-based photonic processors and neural and quantum networks
need to be adaptable, reconfigurable, and programmable. Phase change technology offers …

Silicon photonics is evolving from laboratory research to real-world applications with the
potential to transform many technologies, including optical neural networks and quantum …

Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

Phase change materials (PCMs) have long been used as a storage medium in rewritable
compact disk and later in random access memory. In recent years, integration of PCMs with …

The programmable photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is an enabling technology behind
optical interconnects and quantum information processing. Conventionally, the …

The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have recently gained significant interest
because of their potential in creating next-generation technologies ranging from artificial …

Abstract Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) integrated with phase‐change materials
have attracted great interest due to their low power consumption and ultra‐compact size …

Reconfigurable silicon photonic devices are widely used in numerous emerging fields such
as optical interconnects, photonic neural networks, quantum computing, and microwave …

Reconfiguration of silicon photonic integrated circuits relying on the weak, volatile thermo-
optic or electro-optic effect of silicon usually suffers from a large footprint and energy …