Wavelength-size hybrid Si-VO2 waveguide electroabsorption optical switches and photodetectors

A Joushaghani, J Jeong, S Paradis, D Alain… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Ultra-compact waveguide electroabsorption optical switches and photodetectors with micron-
and sub-micron lengths and compatible with silicon (Si) waveguides are demonstrated …

A dynamically modulated all‐dielectric metasurface doublet for directional harmonic generation and manipulation in transmission

MM Salary, S Farazi, H Mosallaei - Advanced Optical Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, an electrically tunable all‐dielectric metasurface doublet is proposed operating
at mid‐infrared frequency regime with dynamic 2π phase span in transmission mode. Each …

Monolithic integration of silicon-, germanium-, and silica-based optical devices for telecommunications applications

T Tsuchizawa, K Yamada, T Watanabe… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents our recent progress with the integration of silicon (Si) photonic devices
for optical telecommunications. To integrate Si wire waveguides, germanium (Ge) …

Nonlinear carrier dynamics in silicon nano-waveguides

I Aldaya, A Gil-Molina, JL Pita, LH Gabrielli… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The understanding of free-carrier dynamics in silicon photonic nano-waveguides and micro-
cavities is fundamental to several nonlinear optical phenomena. Through time-resolved …

Strain-induced enhancement of plasma dispersion effect and free-carrier absorption in SiGe optical modulators

Y Kim, M Takenaka, T Osada, M Hata, S Takagi - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The plasma dispersion effect and free-carrier absorption are widely used to change
refractive index and absorption coefficient in Si-based optical modulators. However, the …

Study of nonlinear effects and self-heating in a silicon microring resonator including a Shockley-Read-Hall model for carrier recombination

M Novarese, SR Garcia, S Cucco, D Adams… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A detailed description of the non-linear effects in silicon is needed when designing ring
resonators in the silicon platform. The optical field propagating in the ring waveguide is …

Analog optical computing primitives in silicon photonics

Y Jiang, PTS DeVore, B Jalali - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Optical computing accelerators help alleviate bandwidth and power consumption
bottlenecks in electronics. We show an approach to implementing logarithmic-type analog …

Monolithic integration of a silica-based arrayed waveguide grating filter and silicon variable optical attenuators based on p–i–n carrier-injection structure

H Nishi, T Tsuchizawa, T Watanabe… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate the monolithic integration of a silica-based arrayed waveguide grating
(AWG) filter and silicon (Si) variable optical attenuators (VOAs) by connecting them with spot …

Simulation of silicon waveguide single-photon avalanche detectors for integrated quantum photonics

S Yanikgonul, V Leong, JR Ong… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated quantum photonics is recognized as a key enabling technology on the road
towards scalable quantum networking schemes. However, many state-of-the-art integrated …

Polarization insensitive silicon photonic ROADM with selectable communication direction for radio access networks

V Sorianello, GD Angelis, T Cassese, MV Preite… - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report on an experimental prototype of a low-cost silicon photonic reconfigurable optical
add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). The device is able to operate with up to 12 wavelength …