Polarization management for silicon photonic integrated circuits

D Dai, L Liu, S Gao, DX Xu, S He - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization management is very important for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and their
applications. Due to geometrical anisotropy and fabrication inaccuracies, the characteristics …

Silicon-based on-chip multiplexing technologies and devices for Peta-bit optical interconnects

D Dai, JE Bowers - Nanophotonics, 2014 - degruyter.com
An effective solution to enhance the capacity of an optical-interconnect link is utilizing
advanced multiplexing technologies, like wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) …

Hardware-Efficient Coherent Digital Receiver Concept With Feedforward Carrier Recovery for -QAM Constellations

T Pfau, S Hoffmann, R Noé - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel digital feedforward carrier recovery algorithm for arbitrary M-ary
quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) constellations in an intradyne coherent optical …

Novel concept for ultracompact polarization splitter-rotator based on silicon nanowires

D Dai, JE Bowers - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
A novel concept for an ultracompact polarization splitter-rotator is proposed by utilizing a
structure combining an adiabatic taper and an asymmetrical directional coupler. The …

Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Passive technologies for future large-scale photonic integrated circuits on silicon: polarization handling, light non-reciprocity and loss reduction

D Dai, J Bauters, JE Bowers - Light: Science & Applications, 2012 - nature.com
Silicon-based large-scale photonic integrated circuits are becoming important, due to the
need for higher complexity and lower cost for optical transmitters, receivers and optical …

Phase estimation methods for optical coherent detection using digital signal processing

MG Taylor - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The advent of digital signal processing (DSP) to optical coherent detection means that more
phase estimation options are available, compared to the earlier generation where phase …

Silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for on-chip multiplexing and switching

D Dai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A review is given on our recent progresses in silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for
multiplexing and switching, which are key elements in a multichannel multiplexed photonic …

Realization of a compact polarization splitter-rotator on silicon

D Dai, H Wu - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A novel compact polarization splitter-rotator (PSR) is proposed and realized with silicon-on-
insulator nanowires. The present PSR consists of an adiabatic taper, an asymmetric …

Advanced passive silicon photonic devices with asymmetric waveguide structures

D Dai - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various passive photonic integrated devices have been developed successfully with silicon-
on-insulator (SOI) nanowires in the past decade. It is well known that SOI-nanowire …