A review of capabilities and scope for hybrid integration offered by silicon-nitride-based photonic integrated circuits

F Gardes, A Shooa, G De Paoli, I Skandalos, S Ilie… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review we present some of the recent advances in the field of silicon nitride photonic
integrated circuits. The review focuses on the material deposition techniques currently …

In-memory photonic dot-product engine with electrically programmable weight banks

W Zhou, B Dong, N Farmakidis, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electronically reprogrammable photonic circuits based on phase-change chalcogenides
present an avenue to resolve the von-Neumann bottleneck; however, implementation of …

Toward nonvolatile switching in silicon photonic devices

J Parra, I Olivares, A Brimont… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nonvolatile switching is still a missing functionality in current mainstream silicon photonics
complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor platforms. Fundamentally, nonvolatile switching …

Programmable phase-change metasurfaces on waveguides for multimode photonic convolutional neural network

C Wu, H Yu, S Lee, R Peng, I Takeuchi, M Li - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with
significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics for machine …

Non-volatile reconfigurable silicon photonics based on phase-change materials

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

Non‐Volatile Optical Switch Element Enabled by Low‐Loss Phase Change Material

X Yang, L Lu, Y Li, Y Wu, Z Li, J Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) integrated with phase‐change materials
have attracted great interest due to their low power consumption and ultra‐compact size …

Nonvolatile Multilevel Switching of Silicon Photonic Devices with In2O3/GST Segmented Structures

C Zhang, M Wei, J Zheng, S Liu, H Cao… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurable silicon photonic devices are widely used in numerous emerging fields such
as optical interconnects, photonic neural networks, quantum computing, and microwave …

Hybrid photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic computing

R Xu, S Taheriniya, AP Ovvyan, JR Bankwitz… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The burgeoning of artificial intelligence has brought great convenience to people's lives as
large-scale computational models have emerged. Artificial intelligence-related applications …

Non-volatile tunable optics by design: from chalcogenide phase-change materials to device structures

D Wang, L Zhao, S Yu, X Shen, JJ Wang, C Hu… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Integration of chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) with planar multilayer
structures, metasurfaces, waveguides and photonic integrated circuits has sparked …

Resonant multilevel optical switching with phase change material GST

D Wu, X Yang, N Wang, L Lu, J Chen, L Zhou… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
We demonstrate a multilevel optical memristive switch based on a silicon Fabry–Perot
resonator. The resonator is constructed by a pair of waveguide Bragg gratings at the ends of …