Attojoule optoelectronics for low-energy information processing and communications

DAB Miller - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

Survey of photonic and plasmonic interconnect technologies for intra-datacenter and high-performance computing communications

CA Thraskias, EN Lallas, N Neumann… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large scale data centers (DC) and high performance computing (HPC) systems require
more and more computing power at higher energy efficiency. They are already consuming …

16× 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Lu, S Zhao, L Zhou, D Li, Z Li, M Wang, X Li… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

Genetic-algorithm-based deep neural networks for highly efficient photonic device design

Y Ren, L Zhang, W Wang, X Wang, Y Lei, Y Xue… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
While deep learning has demonstrated tremendous potential for photonic device design, it
often demands a large amount of labeled data to train these deep neural network models …

25 Gbps low-voltage waveguide Si–Ge avalanche photodiode

Z Huang, C Li, D Liang, K Yu, C Santori, M Fiorentino… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Silicon-germanium (Si–Ge)-based avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have shown a significant
improvement in receiver sensitivity compared to their III–V counterparts due to the superior …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scalability of large-scale photonic integrated circuits

Y Su, Y He, X Guo, W Xie, X Ji, H Wang, X Cai… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
To keep up with the growing bandwidth demands, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have
been widely employed in various application scenarios where high capacity and high …

Perspective: Nanophotonic electro-optics enabling THz bandwidths, exceptional modulation and energy efficiencies, and compact device footprints

LR Dalton, J Leuthold, BH Robinson, C Haffner… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The growth of integrated photonics has driven the need for efficient, high-bandwidth
electrical-to-optical (EO) signal conversion over a broad range of frequencies (MHz–THz) …