[HTML][HTML] Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

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

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental demonstration of inverse-designed silicon integrated photonic power splitters

J Kim, JY Kim, J Yoon, H Yoon, HH Park, H Kurt - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The on-chip optical power splitter is a common and important device in photonic integrated
circuits (PICs). To achieve a low insertion loss and high uniformity while splitting the guided …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical level set fabrication constraints for inverse design

D Vercruysse, NV Sapra, L Su, R Trivedi, J Vučković - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Inverse design methods produce nanophotonic devices with arbitrary geometries that show
high efficiencies as well as novel functionalities. Ensuring fabricability during optimization of …

Highly compact and efficient four-mode multiplexer based on pixelated waveguides

H Xie, Y Liu, S Wang, Y Wang, Y Yao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-compact mode multiplexer for TE 0, TE 1, TE 2 and TE 3 modes is proposed and
demonstrated experimentally. The device is realized via pixelated waveguides with a …

Fast thermo-optical modulators with doped-silicon heaters operating at 2 μm

C Zhong, H Ma, C Sun, M Wei, Y Ye, B Tang… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The 2-μm-waveband has been recognized as a potential telecommunication window for
next-generation low-loss, low-latency optical communication. Thermo-optic (TO) modulators …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Passive devices at 2 µm wavelength on 200 mm CMOS-compatible silicon photonics platform

H Ma, H Yang, B Tang, M Wei, J Li, J Wu… - Chinese Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
As a promising spectral window for optical communication and sensing, it is of great
significance to realize on-chip devices at the 2 µm waveband. The development of the 2 µm …

Thermo-optic tunable silicon arrayed waveguide grating at 2-μm wavelength band

Y Liu, Z Li, D Li, Y Yao, J Du, Z He… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The transparent window in optical fiber at 2-μm waveband enables a huge potential for fiber
optical communications. Intensive efforts have been devoted to pursuit of photonic devices …

[HTML][HTML] Non-volatile programmable ultra-small photonic arbitrary power splitters

H Yuan, J Wu, J Zhang, X Pu, Z Zhang, Y Yu, J Yang - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
A series of reconfigurable compact photonic arbitrary power splitters are proposed based on
the hybrid structure of silicon and Ge2Sb2Se4Te1 (GSST), which is a new kind of non …