Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Digital nanophotonics: The highway to the integration of subwavelength-scale photonics: Ultra-compact, multi-function nanophotonic design based on computational …

J Huang, H Ma, D Chen, H Yuan, J Zhang, Z Li… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonic devices with high densities are extremely attractive because they can
potentially merge photonics and electronics at the nanoscale. However, traditional …

Silicon integrated nanophotonic devices for on-chip multi-mode interconnects

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

Inverse-designed arbitrary-input and ultra-compact 1× N power splitters based on high symmetric structure

H Ma, J Huang, K Zhang, J Yang - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Based on high symmetric structure, we propose the arbitrary-input and ultra-compact 1× 2
and 1× 3 power splitters by utilizing inverse design method. These devices can realize the …

Ultra-compact mode-division multiplexed photonic integrated circuit for dual polarizations

Y Liu, Z Wang, Y Liu, X Wang, X Guo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization and mode division multiplexing are powerful tools for large-capacity parallel
optical communications. Dual-polarization and mode-division multiplexed silicon photonic …

Inverse design of a dual-mode 3-dB optical power splitter with a 445 nm bandwidth

J Xu, Y Liu, X Guo, Q Song, K Xu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optical power splitters are fundamental blocks for photonic integrated circuits. Conventional
3-dB power splitters are either constrained to single-mode regime or to the limited optical …

Ultra-compact and efficient 1× 2 mode converters based on rotatable direct-binary-search algorithm

H Ma, J Huang, K Zhang, J Yang - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we innovatively demonstrate a rotatable direct-binary-search algorithm. Based
on this unique inverse design method, the coupling region of nanophotonic device can be …

Broadband multimode 3 dB optical power splitter using tapered couplers

W Chen, J Lin, H Li, P Wang, S Dai, Y Liu, R Yao… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A design of a 1× 2 multimode 3 dB optical power splitter using tapered couplers is proposed
and investigated in this paper. As an example, a 1× 2 splitter processing five-lowest order …

Mode division multiplexing: from photonic integration to optical fiber transmission

J Du, W Shen, J Liu, Y Chen, X Chen, Z He - Chinese Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
To overcome the capacity crunch of optical communications based on the traditional single-
mode fiber (SMF), different modes in a few-mode fiber (FMF) can be employed for mode …

[HTML][HTML] An ultra-compact dual-channel multimode wavelength demultiplexer based on inverse design

H Yuan, J Huang, Z Wang, J Zhang, Y Deng, G Lin… - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
An ultra-compact multimode wavelength demultiplexer (MWD) with a footprint of 3.6× 2.4 μm
2 was designed. Its size is approximately two orders of magnitude smaller than the size of …