Subwavelength-grating metamaterial structures for silicon photonic devices

R Halir, A Ortega-Moñux, D Benedikovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

Optical multi-mode interference devices based on self-imaging: principles and applications

LB Soldano, ECM Pennings - Journal of lightwave technology, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of integrated optics routing and coupling devices based on
multimode interference. The underlying self-imaging principle in multimode waveguides is …

Label-free optical resonant sensors for biochemical applications

C Ciminelli, CM Campanella, F Dell'Olio… - Progress in Quantum …, 2013 - Elsevier
For a number of years, the scientific community has been paying growing attention to the
monitoring and enhancement of public health and the quality of life through the detection of …

Fabrication-constrained nanophotonic inverse design

AY Piggott, J Petykiewicz, L Su, J Vučković - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
A major difficulty in applying computational design methods to nanophotonic devices is
ensuring that the resulting designs are fabricable. Here, we describe a general inverse …

Ultra‐broadband nanophotonic beamsplitter using an anisotropic sub‐wavelength metamaterial

R Halir, P Cheben, JM Luque‐González… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nanophotonic beamsplitters are fundamental building blocks in integrated optics, with
applications ranging from high speed telecom receivers to biological sensors and quantum …

Silicon nitride CMOS-compatible platform for integrated photonics applications at visible wavelengths

S Romero-García, F Merget, F Zhong, H Finkelstein… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Silicon nitride is demonstrated as a high performance and cost-effective solution for dense
integrated photonic circuits in the visible spectrum. Experimental results for nanophotonic …

An optical 1× 4 power splitter based on Silicon–Nitride MMI using strip waveguide structures

A Frishman, D Malka - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a new design for a 1× 4 optical power splitter using multimode
interference (MMI) coupler in silicon nitride (Si3N4) strip waveguide structures. The main …

Universal linear optics revisited: new perspectives for neuromorphic computing with silicon photonics

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reprogrammable optical meshes comprise a subject of heightened interest for the execution
of linear transformations, having a significant impact in numerous applications that extend …

Wavelength independent multimode interference coupler

A Maese-Novo, R Halir, S Romero-García… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We propose an ultra-broadband multimode interference (MMI) coupler with a wavelength
range exceeding the O, E, S, C, L and U optical communication bands. For the first time, the …

Multimode interference of Bloch surface electromagnetic waves

KR Safronov, DN Gulkin, IM Antropov, KA Abrashitova… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Integrated photonics aims at on-chip controlling light in the micro-and nanoscale ranges
utilizing the waveguide circuits, which include such basic elements as splitters, multiplexers …