Thirty years in silicon photonics: a personal view

L Pavesi - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Silicon Photonics, the technology where optical devices are fabricated by the mainstream
microelectronic processing technology, was proposed almost 30 years ago. I joined this …

Photonic neural networks based on integrated silicon microresonators

S Biasi, G Donati, A Lugnan, M Mancinelli… - Intelligent …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in
fields in which standard computers are not able to perform adequately. The AI paradigm is to …

High-order spectral singularity

HS Xu, LC Xie, L Jin - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Exceptional point and spectral singularity are two types of singularity that are unique to non-
Hermitian systems. Here, we report the high-order spectral singularity as a high-order pole …

Coherent resonant transmission

HS Xu, L Jin - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The reflectionless coherent light transport in the coupled resonator array is investigated in
the presence of intra-resonator intermodal coupling between the clockwise and …

Unidirectional lasing in nonlinear Taiji microring resonators

A Muñoz de las Heras, I Carusotto - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We develop a general formalism to study laser operation in active microring resonators
supporting two counterpropagating modes. Our formalism is based on the coupled-mode …

[HTML][HTML] The infinity-loop microresonator: A new integrated photonic structure working on an exceptional surface

R Franchi, S Biasi, D Piciocchi, L Pavesi - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Exceptional points, where eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, impact the behavior of
different photonics components that show, eg, enhanced sensing, coherent perfect …

Fixing the rotating-wave approximation for strongly detuned quantum oscillators

J Košata, A Leuch, T Kästli, O Zilberberg - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Periodically driven oscillators are commonly described in a frame corotating with the drive
and using the rotating-wave approximation (RWA). This description, however, is known to …

Interferometric method to estimate the eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian two-level optical system

S Biasi, R Franchi, F Mione, L Pavesi - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Non-Hermitian physics has found a fertile ground in optics. Recently, the study of mode
coalescence, ie, exceptional points, has led to the discovery of intriguing and …

On the response of the Taiji microresonator against small perturbation of the counter propagating mode

R Franchi, S Biasi, F Mione… - Integrated Optics: Devices …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this work, we study the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a taiji microresonator that is
made by a ring cavity with an embedded S-shaped waveguide. Specifically, we …

Nonlinear optical nonreciprocity in a surface plasmon–exciton coupled asymmetric cavity system

S Fan, F Zhou, F Xu, Y Qi, Y Niu, S Gong - The European Physical Journal …, 2022 - Springer
Optical nonreciprocity and nonreciprocal devices have attracted great research interest in
recent years, due to their important applications in optical communication, information …