Silicon and hybrid silicon photonic devices for intra-datacenter applications: state of the art and perspectives

Y Li, Y Zhang, L Zhang, AW Poon - Photonics Research, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We review the state of the art and our perspectives on silicon and hybrid silicon photonic
devices for optical interconnects in datacenters. After a brief discussion of the key …

State‐of‐the‐art all‐silicon sub‐bandgap photodetectors at telecom and datacom wavelengths

M Casalino, G Coppola, RM De La Rue… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon‐based technologies provide an ideal platform for the monolithic integration of
photonics and microelectronics. In this context, a variety of passive and active silicon …

Control-free and efficient integrated photonic neural networks via hardware-aware training<? TeX\break?> and pruning

T Xu, W Zhang, J Zhang, Z Luo, Q Xiao, B Wang, M Luo… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonic neural networks (PNNs) are at the forefront of AI computing, leveraging
light's unique properties, such as large bandwidth, low latency, and potentially low power …

Experimental realization of arbitrary activation functions for optical neural networks

MM Pour Fard, IAD Williamson, M Edwards, K Liu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate an on-chip electro-optic circuit for realizing arbitrary
nonlinear activation functions for optical neural networks (ONNs). The circuit operates by …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for wavelength-division multiplexing applications

P Dong - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

Wavelength tuning and stabilization of microring-based filters using silicon in-resonator photoconductive heaters

H Jayatilleka, K Murray, MÁ Guillén-Torres… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that n-doped resistive heaters in silicon waveguides show photoconductive
effects with high responsivities. These photoconductive heaters, integrated into microring …

Compact on-chip 1× 2 wavelength selective switch based on silicon microring resonator with nested pairs of subrings

J Wu, P Cao, T Pan, Y Yang, C Qiu, C Tremblay… - Photonics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate compact on-chip 1× 2 wavelength selective
switches (WSSs) based on silicon microring resonators (MRRs) with nested pairs of …

Photoconductive heaters enable control of large-scale silicon photonic ring resonator circuits

H Jayatilleka, H Shoman, L Chrostowski, S Shekhar - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A multitude of large-scale silicon photonic systems based on ring resonators have been
envisioned for applications ranging from biomedical sensing to quantum computing and …

Towards a high-density photonic tensor core enabled by intensity-modulated microrings and photonic wire bonding

E Luan, S Yu, M Salmani, MS Nezami, BJ Shastri… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We propose a photonic processing unit for high-density analog computation using intensity-
modulation-based microring modulators (IM-MRMs). The output signal at the fixed …

Dithering‐based real‐time control of cascaded silicon photonic devices by means of non‐invasive detectors

F Zanetto, V Grimaldi, F Toso, E Guglielmi… - IET …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time control of multiple cascaded devices is a key requirement for the development of
complex silicon photonic circuits performing new sophisticated optical functionalities. This …