Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Silicon photonics for terabit/s communication in data centers and exascale computers

S Bernabe, Q Wilmart, K Hasharoni, K Hassan… - Solid-State …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Silicon Photonics Technology using sub micrometer SOI platform, which
commercially emerged at the beginning of the century, has now gained market shares in the …

Open-access silicon photonics: Current status and emerging initiatives

A Rahim, T Spuesens, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

Sub-wavelength-pitch silicon-photonic optical phased array for large field-of-regard coherent optical beam steering

Y Zhang, YC Ling, K Zhang, C Gentry, D Sadighi… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper reports on large field-of-regard, high-efficiency, and large aperture active optical
phased arrays (OPAs) for optical beam steering in LIDAR systems. The fabricated 5 mm …

Heterogeneous integration in silicon photonics: opportunities and challenges: opinion

R Baets, A Rahim - Optical Materials Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The application span of silicon photonics is rapidly evolving from high speed transceivers for
data-and telecommunication to a broad range of functionalities for many different markets …

Open-access silicon photonics platforms in Europe

A Rahim, J Goyvaerts, B Szelag… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offering open-access silicon photonics-based technologies has played a pivotal role in
unleashing this technology from research laboratories to industry. Fabless enterprises rely …

A versatile silicon-silicon nitride photonics platform for enhanced functionalities and applications

Q Wilmart, H El Dirani, N Tyler, D Fowler, S Malhouitre… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is one of the most prominent technology platforms for integrated photonics
and can support a wide variety of applications. As we move towards a mature industrial core …

Universal design of waveguide bends in silicon-on-insulator photonics platform

M Bahadori, M Nikdast, Q Cheng… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose a universal and analytic step-by-step method to calculate the optimal 90° and
180° waveguide bends (L-bends and U-bends) in silicon-on-insulator photonics platform …

Programmable photonics: An opportunity for an accessible large-volume PIC ecosystem

W Bogaerts, A Rahim - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We look at the opportunities presented by the new concepts of generic programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PIC) to deploy photonics on a larger scale. Programmable PICs …

Inverse Design of Ultra‐Compact Multimode Waveguide Bends Based on the Free‐Form Curves

S Sun, P Dong, F Zhang, J Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
On‐chip mode‐division multiplexing (MDM) can increase the transmission capacity of a
single optical bus waveguide. It is of great significance for the MDM systems to design the …