On-chip silicon photonic signaling and processing: a review

J Wang, Y Long - Science Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

Optomechanical sensing with on-chip microcavities

YW Hu, YF Xiao, YC Liu, Q Gong - Frontiers of Physics, 2013 - Springer
The coupling between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom has been of broad
interest for a long time. However, it is only until recently, with the rapid development of …

Broadband nanoelectromechanical phase shifting of light on a chip

M Poot, HX Tang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate an optomechanical phase shifter. By electrostatically deflecting the
nanofabricated mechanical structure, the effective index of a nearby waveguide is changed …

Optical nonreciprocity in asymmetric optomechanical couplers

Z Wang, L Shi, Y Liu, X Xu, X Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
We propose an all-optical integrated nonreciprocal device on the optomechanical platform
with a large nonreciprocal bandwidth and low operating power. The device is based on an …

Experimental realization of on-chip nonreciprocal transmission by using the mechanical Kerr effect

L Ren, X Xu, S Zhu, L Shi, X Zhang - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Realizing nonreciprocal light transmission in photonic integrated circuits is challenging and
highly desirable. To break the time-reversal symmetry without the magneto-optical effect …

Integrated optical circulator by stimulated Brillouin scattering induced non-reciprocal phase shift

W Fu, FJ Shu, YL Zhang, CH Dong, CL Zou… - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new approach to realize all-optical circulator based on stimulated Brillouin
scattering in an integrated microresonator. Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a basic …

Enhanced optical gradient forces between coupled graphene sheets

X Xu, L Shi, Y Liu, Z Wang, X Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Optical gradient forces between monolayer infinite-width graphene sheets as well as single-
mode graphene nanoribbon pairs of graphene surface plasmons (GSPs) at mid-infrared …

Optical forces through the effective refractive index

JR Rodrigues, VR Almeida - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Energy-based methods such as the dispersion relation (DR) and response theory of optical
forces (RTOF) have been largely applied to obtain the optical forces in the nano …

Diamond electro-optomechanical resonators integrated in nanophotonic circuits

P Rath, S Ummethala, S Diewald… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Diamond integrated photonic devices are promising candidates for emerging applications in
nanophotonics and quantum optics. Here, we demonstrate active modulation of diamond …

High-Q slot-mode photonic crystal nanobeam cavity biosensor with optomechanically enhanced sensitivity

M Erdil, Y Ozer, S Kocaman - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A biosensor design based on a photonic crystal nanobeam cavity with an optomechanical
positive feedback mechanism is proposed. Design of the cavity and optomechanical …