Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Integrated silicon photonic microresonators: emerging technologies

Z Yao, K Wu, BX Tan, J Wang, Y Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is becoming the leading technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
due to large-scale integration, low cost, and high-volume productions enabled by …

[HTML][HTML] InP photonic integrated multi-layer neural networks: Architecture and performance analysis

B Shi, N Calabretta, R Stabile - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the use of a wavelength converter, based on cross-gain modulation in a
semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), as a nonlinear function co-integrated within an all …

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 …

Canceling thermal cross-talk effects in photonic integrated circuits

M Milanizadeh, D Aguiar, A Melloni… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Thermal actuators are among the most consolidated and widespread devices for the active
control of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). As a main drawback, mutual thermal crosstalk …

Silicon–lithium niobate hybrid intensity and coherent modulators using a periodic capacitively loaded traveling-wave electrode

Z Wang, G Chen, Z Ruan, R Gan, P Huang… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-performance silicon and thin-film lithium niobate hybrid electro-optic modulators are
demonstrated. In order to break the voltage–bandwidth limit in a normal traveling-wave …

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 …

State of the art and perspectives on silicon photonic switches

X Tu, C Song, T Huang, Z Chen, H Fu - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, silicon photonic switches are increasingly believed to be potential
candidates for replacing the electrical switches in the applications of telecommunication …

A 25 Gb/s, 4.4 V-swing, AC-coupled ring modulator-based WDM transmitter with wavelength stabilization in 65 nm CMOS

H Li, Z Xuan, A Titriku, C Li, K Yu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics devices offer promising solution to meet the growing bandwidth demands
of next-generation interconnects. This paper presents a 5× 25 Gb/s carrier-depletion …

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 …