Programmable photonic integrated circuits offer exciting opportunities for optoelectronic
signal processing, computing and communications in a number of emerging applications in …

In this letter, a 2× 2 thermo-optic waveguide-based switch with ultralow power consumption
is demonstrated and fabricated using a standard complementary metal-oxide-semi …

We demonstrate two novel hybrid lasers with the same III–V ultrawideband gain medium. An
hybrid III–V/Si laser and its III–V/SiO2 counterpart exhibit high fiber-coupled output power …

We have achieved a silica-based PLC thermooptic switch with a power consumption of only
30 mW without any deterioration in the optical properties by using a tapered narrow ridge …

By exploiting the polymer/silica hybrid and the air trench waveguide structures, we
demonstrate a new type of low-power consuming and high-speed thermal-optic (TO) switch …

We design and fabricate a thermo-optic waveguide switch based on the configuration of a
balanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer optimized for fast operation. The structure of the …

In recent years, silicon photonics (Si-photonics) have received significant attention among
researchers due to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor compatibility, and the …

A Multimode Interferometers–Mach Zehnder Interference (MMI–MZI) polymer 2× 2 thermo-
optic switch is proposed using the thermo-optical effect of polymer materials and fabricated …

Future optical communication systems will exploit increasingly wide optical wavelength
bands to continue scaling capacity per installed fiber. Currently, optical components such as …

In recent years, the design of all-optical circuits has received a great attention among the
researchers due to high-speed and low-power characteristics and compatibility with CMOS …