Tapered metasurfaces for eliminating up-down asymmetry of quasi-bound states in the continuum resonance

H Xu, H Li, C Song, S Wang, Q Tan, L Luo, Y Liu… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
Either the bound states in the continuum (BIC) or quasi-BIC structure can be used as
Hermitian system when it has up-down symmetry (Cartesian coordinates in the out-plane or …

Integrated Photonic Passive Building Blocks on Silicon-On-Insulator Platform

F Amanti, G Andrini, F Armani, F Barbato, V Bellani… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Integrated photonics on Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) substrates is a well developed research
field that has already significantly impacted various fields, such as quantum computing …

Broadband 2× 2 multimode-interference coupler on the silicon-nitride platform

X Ai, Y Zhang, WL Hsu, S Veilleux, M Dagenais - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we present the design, optimization, and implementation of a sub-wavelength
grating (SWG) multi-mode interference coupler (MMI) on the silicon nitride photonic …

Compact light couplers for lateral III–V membrane devices grown on SOI platforms

Z Ren, Y Han - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Compact light couplers between III–V devices and Si waveguides are crucial for advancing
the scalability of Si photonics. Here, we present a compact light coupling strategy for lateral …

Brillouin lasing in microspheres coupled with silicon subwavelength grating waveguides

L Yu, C Huang, H Shi, Q Huang, J Sun - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Brillouin lasing has been widely applied to microwave oscillators, optical gyroscopes, optical
sensors, and other fields owing to its strong and flexible dynamics. Microspheres with …

Silicon Photonic Antennas for Optical Phased Arrays

S Khajavi - 2024 - repository.library.carleton.ca
Optical interfaces play a key role in silicon photonics as they enable the efficient coupling of
optical signals between integrated photonic devices and the off-chip environment. As an off …

Compact light couplers for lateral III-V membrane devices grown on SOI

Z Ren, Y Han - 2024 - opg.optica.org
Compact light couplers between III-V devices and Si waveguides are crucial for advancing
the scalability of Si photonics. Here, we present a compact light coupling strategy for lateral …

Effective index approximation method for Graded Photonic Crystals slabs: precise design of a Mikaelian lens

X Zheng, É Akmansoy - 2024 - techrxiv.org
In this article, we propose an effective index approximation to precisely engineer the
effective index of 2D Photonic Crystal slab with a subwavelength lattice period. This …

Using Actor-Network Theory to Examine the Invention-to-Innovation Transition of SWG Photonic Meta-Materials

SJ Sieklicki - 2024 - repository.library.carleton.ca
This thesis examines how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) can be adapted to provide proactive
insights on ongoing invention-to-innovation transitions when the researcher is not an active …

Metamaterial edge couplers in the back-end-of-line stack of a photonics chip

Y Bian, RA Augur, KJ Giewont, K Nummy - US Patent 11,934,008, 2024 - Google Patents
Structures for an edge coupler and methods of forming a structure for an edge coupler. The
structure includes a waveguide core over a dielectric layer, and a back-end-of-line stack …