[HTML][HTML] Thirty years in silicon photonics: a personal view

L Pavesi - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Silicon Photonics, the technology where optical devices are fabricated by the mainstream
microelectronic processing technology, was proposed almost 30 years ago. I joined this …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic neural networks based on integrated silicon microresonators

S Biasi, G Donati, A Lugnan, M Mancinelli… - Intelligent …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in
fields in which standard computers are not able to perform adequately. The AI paradigm is to …

[HTML][HTML] On the effect of the thermal cross-talk in a photonic feed-forward neural network based on silicon microresonators

S Biasi, R Franchi, D Bazzanella, L Pavesi - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Local heating is widely used to trim or tune photonic components in integrated optics.
Typically, it is achieved through the power dissipation of metal microwires driven by a …

A microring as a reservoir computing node: memory/nonlinear tasks and effect of input non-ideality

D Bazzanella, S Biasi, M Mancinelli… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The nonlinear response of an optical microresonator is used in a time multiplexed reservoir
computing neural network. Within a virtual node approach combined with an offline training …

Parametric all-optical modulation on a chip

Z Li, J Chen, Z Ma, C Tang, YM Sua, YP Huang - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate parametric all-optical modulation in a periodically poled lithium niobate
microring resonator on a chip. It uses quantum Zeno blockade between two distinct waves, a …

Interferometric method to estimate the eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian two-level optical system

S Biasi, R Franchi, F Mione, L Pavesi - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Non-Hermitian physics has found a fertile ground in optics. Recently, the study of mode
coalescence, ie, exceptional points, has led to the discovery of intriguing and …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer ring resonator with a partially tapered waveguide for biomedical sensing: Computational study

T Sahraeibelverdi, LJ Guo, H Veladi, MR Malekshahi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ring resonators are well-known optical biosensors thanks to their relatively high Q-factor
and sensitivity, in addition to their potential to be fabricated in large arrays with a small …

Optimization of a lossy microring resonator system for the generation of quadrature-squeezed states

C Vendromin, MM Dignam - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The intensity buildup of light inside a lossy microring resonator can be used to enhance the
generation of squeezed states via spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC). In this …

Interferometric cavity ringdown technique for ultrahigh Q-factor microresonators

S Biasi, R Franchi, L Pavesi - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Microresonators (MRs) are key components in integrated optics. As a result, the estimation
of their energy storage capacity as measured by the quality factor (Q) is crucial. However, in …

A time-delay reservoir computing neural network based on a single microring resonator with external optical feedback

G Donati - 2023 - dspace.uib.es
[eng] Artificial intelligence is a new paradigm of information processing where machines
emulate human intelligence and perform tasks that cannot be done with standard …