Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Silicon microring resonators

W Bogaerts, P De Heyn… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Ultrabroad-bandwidth arbitrary radiofrequency waveform generation with a silicon photonic chip-based spectral shaper

MH Khan, H Shen, Y Xuan, L Zhao, S Xiao… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Ultrabroad-bandwidth radiofrequency pulses offer significant applications potential, such as
increased data transmission rate and multipath tolerance in wireless communications. Such …

Thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with ultralow tuning power

P Dong, W Qian, H Liang, R Shafiiha, D Feng, G Li… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We present thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with an ultralow tuning power of
2.4 mW per free spectral range. The use of free-standing silicon racetrack resonators with …

Resolving the thermal challenges for silicon microring resonator devices

K Padmaraju, K Bergman - Nanophotonics, 2014 - degruyter.com
Silicon microring resonators have been hailed for their potential use in next-generation
optical interconnects. However, the functionality of silicon microring based devices suffer …

Optomechanical device actuation through the optical gradient force

D Van Thourhout, J Roels - Nature Photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Optical forces are widely used to manipulate microparticles such as living cells, DNA and
bacteria. The forces used in these'optical tweezers' originate from the strongly varying …

Optical 4× 4 hitless silicon router for optical networks-on-chip (NoC)

N Sherwood-Droz, H Wang, L Chen, BG Lee… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate here a spatially non-blocking optical 4x4 router with a footprint of 0.07 mm^
2 for use in future integrated photonic interconnection networks. The device is dynamically …

Silicon photonics: from a microresonator perspective

S Feng, T Lei, H Chen, H Cai, X Luo… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Low power and compact reconfigurable multiplexing devices based on silicon microring resonators

P Dong, W Qian, H Liang, R Shafiiha, NN Feng… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We present thermally reconfigurable multiplexing devices based on silicon microring
resonators with low tuning power and low thermal crosstalk. Micro-heaters on top of the …