Silicon integrated nanophotonic devices for on-chip multi-mode interconnects

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Broadband picometer-scale resolution on-chip spectrometer with reconfigurable photonics

C Yao, M Chen, T Yan, L Ming, Q Cheng… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Miniaturization of optical spectrometers is important to enable spectroscopic analysis to play
a role in in situ, or even in vitro and in vivo characterization systems. However, scaled-down …

Integrated structured light manipulation

J Wang, K Li, Z Quan - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light, also known as tailored light, shaped light, sculpted light, or custom light,
refers to a series of special light beams with spatially variant amplitudes and phases …

Ultra-compact mode-division multiplexed photonic integrated circuit for dual polarizations

Y Liu, Z Wang, Y Liu, X Wang, X Guo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization and mode division multiplexing are powerful tools for large-capacity parallel
optical communications. Dual-polarization and mode-division multiplexed silicon photonic …

An ultra-compact 3-dB power splitter for three modes based on pixelated meta-structure

H Xie, Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Wang, Y Yao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-compact and efficient 3-dB power splitter for mode division multiplexing is proposed
and demonstrated experimentally in this letter. The device is realized via pixelated meta …

Thermally-reconfigurable silicon photonic devices and circuits

Y Xie, Y Shi, L Liu, J Wang, R Priti… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable photonic integrated devices and circuits are very important for many
applications. Among various mechanisms for realizing reconfigurability, thermo-optic effect …

Dual-mode broadband compact 2× 2 optical power splitter using sub-wavelength metamaterial structures

H Shiran, G Zhang, O Liboiron-Ladouceur - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The multimode power splitter is a fundamental component in mode-division multiplexed
systems. In this paper, we design and characterize a broadband compact dual-mode …

Broadband and low crosstalk silicon on-chip mode converter and demultiplexer for mode division multiplexing

D Chack, S Hassan, M Qasim - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, a compact and broadband mode converter and demultiplexer based on
multimode interference (MMI) is designed and experimentally demonstrated on silicon-on …

Mode insensitive switch for on-chip interconnect mode division multiplexing systems

G Zhang, HR Mojaver, A Das, O Liboiron-Ladouceur - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A mode insensitive switch is proposed and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon-on-
insulator platform using a balanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer structure with a mode …