Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

Multimode silicon photonics

C Li, D Liu, D Dai - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Multimode silicon photonics is attracting more and more attention because the introduction
of higher-order modes makes it possible to increase the channel number for data …

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 …

Large optical nonlinearity of nanoantennas coupled to an epsilon-near-zero material

MZ Alam, SA Schulz, J Upham, I De Leon, RW Boyd - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The size and operating energy of a nonlinear optical device are fundamentally constrained
by the weakness of the nonlinear optical response of common materials. Here, we report …

On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy

A Dutt, C Joshi, X Ji, J Cardenas, Y Okawachi… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful technique for real-time, broadband optical sampling
of molecular spectra, which requires no moving components. Recent developments with …

Low-loss and broadband nonvolatile phase-change directional coupler switches

P Xu, J Zheng, JK Doylend, A Majumdar - Acs Photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
An optical equivalent of the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is of great interest to
large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Previous programmable photonic devices relying on …

2D materials enabled next‐generation integrated optoelectronics: from fabrication to applications

Z Cheng, R Cao, K Wei, Y Yao, X Liu, J Kang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials, such as graphene, black phosphorous and transition metal
dichalcogenides, have gained persistent attention in the past few years thanks to their …

[HTML][HTML] WDM-compatible mode-division multiplexing on a silicon chip

LW Luo, N Ophir, CP Chen, LH Gabrielli… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Significant effort in optical-fibre research has been put in recent years into realizing mode-
division multiplexing (MDM) in conjunction with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to …

Photonic switching in high performance datacenters

Q Cheng, S Rumley, M Bahadori, K Bergman - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

On-chip mode-division multiplexing switch

B Stern, X Zhu, CP Chen, LD Tzuang, J Cardenas… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Leveraging the spatial modes of multimode waveguides using mode-division multiplexing
on an integrated photonic chip allows unprecedented scaling of bandwidth density for on …