Silicon-based on-chip multiplexing technologies and devices for Peta-bit optical interconnects

D Dai, JE Bowers - Nanophotonics, 2014 - degruyter.com
An effective solution to enhance the capacity of an optical-interconnect link is utilizing
advanced multiplexing technologies, like wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) …

The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

F Morichetti, C Ferrari, A Canciamilla… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A century after the first optical cavity, coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs) were
conceived as a new way to guide light on a photonic chip. Controlling chains of coupled …

Silicon photonics

B Jalali, S Fathpour - Journal of lightwave technology, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After dominating the electronics industry for decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the
material of choice for the photonics industry: the traditional stronghold of III-V …

Polarization-transparent microphotonic devices in the strong confinement limit

T Barwicz, MR Watts, MA Popović, PT Rakich… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
Microphotonic structures that strongly confine light, such as photonic crystals and micron-
sized resonators, have unique characteristics that could radically advance technology …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for wavelength-division multiplexing applications

P Dong - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

Thermo-optic characterization of silicon nitride resonators for cryogenic photonic circuits

AW Elshaari, IE Zadeh, KD Jöns… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we characterize the Thermo-optic properties of silicon nitride ring resonators
between 18 and 300 K. The Thermo-optic coefficients of the silicon nitride core and the …

Silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for on-chip multiplexing and switching

D Dai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A review is given on our recent progresses in silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for
multiplexing and switching, which are key elements in a multichannel multiplexed photonic …

Nanophotonic integration in state-of-the-art CMOS foundries

JS Orcutt, A Khilo, CW Holzwarth, MA Popović, H Li… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a monolithic photonic integration platform that leverages the existing state-
of-the-art CMOS foundry infrastructure. In our approach, proven XeF_2 post-processing …

Ultralow-loss silicon ring resonators

A Biberman, MJ Shaw, E Timurdogan, JB Wright… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate silicon ring resonators with internal quality factors of Q_0=
2.2× 10^ 7, corresponding to record 2.7 dB/m propagation losses. Importantly, we show that …

Design space exploration of microring resonators in silicon photonic interconnects: impact of the ring curvature

M Bahadori, M Nikdast, S Rumley, LY Dai… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A detailed analysis of fundamental tradeoffs between ring radius and coupling gap size is
presented to draw realistic borders of the possible design space for microring resonators …