Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond

P Prabhathan, KV Sreekanth, J Teng, JH Ko, YJ Yoo… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as a
platform for achieving diverse functionalities in active and reconfigurable micro …

Photonic (computational) memories: tunable nanophotonics for data storage and computing

C Lian, C Vagionas, T Alexoudi, N Pleros… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The exponential growth of information stored in data centers and computational power
required for various data-intensive applications, such as deep learning and AI, call for new …

Programmable phase-change metasurfaces on waveguides for multimode photonic convolutional neural network

C Wu, H Yu, S Lee, R Peng, I Takeuchi, M Li - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with
significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics for machine …

Reconfigurable chalcogenide phase change metamaterials: a material, device, and fabrication perspective

A Mandal, Y Cui, L McRae… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Chalcogenide phase change semiconductors have played a crucial role in the evolution of
photonic technologies. From their decades-long utilization at the core of optical disks to their …

Side polished fiber: a versatile platform for compact fiber devices and sensors

L Zhuo, J Tang, W Zhu, H Zheng, H Guan, H Lu… - Photonic Sensors, 2023 - Springer
Side polished fiber (SPF) has a controllable average roughness and length of the side-
polishing region, which becomes a versatile platform for integrating multiple materials to …

All-Fiber Synapse Utilizing Phase Change Materials for Information Recognition and Processing

Y Li, Y Zhang, Z Liu, S Cheng, X Li, W Jin… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical fiber has been widely used in telecommunication networks due to its inherent
advantages of considerable bandwidth and ultrahigh-speed light transmission. However, it …

A non-volatile quasi-continuous all-optical fiber programmable platform based on GST-coated microspheres

R Duan, J Sun, Y Zhang, H Li, Y Li, Z Liu - Acs Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is recognized to be challenging to develop a continuous programmable platform for all-
optical modulation characterized by macro-scale, long-distance transmission, and effective …

[HTML][HTML] Phase change of Ge2Sb2Te5 under terahertz laser illumination

K Zhou, J Nan, J Shen, Z Li, JC Cao, Z Song, M Zhu… - APL Materials, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) is the typical phase change material (PCM) that can reversibly
transform between the amorphous (a) and crystalline (c) states. Because the optical …

CO2 laser-based side-polishing of silica optical fibers

S Fan, N Healy - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, an optical fiber side-polishing process is proposed that is non-contact,
versatile, and scalable. A CO_2 laser, with carefully selected pulse parameters, is used to …

Terahertz-infrared spectroscopy of Ge2Sb2Te5 films on sapphire: Evolution of broadband electrodynamic response upon phase transitions

AA Gavdush, GA Komandin, VV Bukin… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Phase-change alloy Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) forms a favorable material platform for modern
optics, photonics, and electronics thanks to a pronounced increase in conductivity with …