[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reservoir computing based on a silicon microring and time multiplexing for binary and analog operations

M Borghi, S Biasi, L Pavesi - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Photonic implementations of reservoir computing (RC) promise to reach ultra-high
bandwidth of operation with moderate training efforts. Several optoelectronic demonstrations …

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 …

Unidirectional reflection from an integrated “taiji” microresonator

A Calabrese, F Ramiro-Manzano, HM Price… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We study light transmission and reflection from an integrated microresonator device, formed
by a circular microresonator coupled to a bus waveguide, with an embedded S-shaped …

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 spectral response of a taiji-CROW device

B Aslan, R Franchi, S Biasi, S Ali, L Pavesi - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Physical systems with topological properties are robust against disorder. However,
implementing them in integrated photonic devices is challenging because of the various …

[HTML][HTML] Backscattering in nonlinear microring resonators via a gaussian treatment of coupled cavity modes

W McCutcheon - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Systems of coupled cavity modes have the potential to provide bright quantum optical states
of light in a highly versatile manner. Microring resonators, for instance, are highly scalable …

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 …