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 …

Silicon‐Waveguide‐Integrated High‐Quality Metagrating Supporting Bound State in the Continuum

H Xu, Y Shi - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The photonic bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a spatially bounded eigen state that can
be realized in the form of a supercavity mode with an ultrahigh quality factor. The high …

Nonlinearity-induced reciprocity breaking in a single nonmagnetic taiji resonator

A Muñoz de las Heras, R Franchi, S Biasi… - Physical Review …, 2021‏ - APS
We report on the demonstration of an effective, nonlinearity-induced nonreciprocal behavior
in a single nonmagnetic multi-mode Taiji resonator. Nonreciprocity is achieved by a …

Thermo-optic multistability and relaxation in silicon microring resonators with lateral diodes

D Gray, R Hamerly, M Namdari, MT Cătuneanu… - Physical Review …, 2020‏ - APS
We demonstrate voltage-tunable thermo-optic bi-and tristability in silicon photonic microring
resonators with lateral pin junctions and present a technique for characterizing the thermo …

Nonclassical optical bistability and resonance-locked regime of photon-pair sources using silicon microring resonator

K Guo, L Yang, X Shi, X Liu, Y Cao, J Zhang, X Wang… - Physical Review …, 2019‏ - APS
We generate correlated photon pairs in an all-pass silicon microring resonator using
continuous-wave pumped spontaneous four-wave mixing and we characterize in detail the …

Tunable Fano-type resonance with quadrature squeezing in a double-cavity-waveguide structure of photonic crystals

S Liu, J Wang, Z Song, Y Li, S Zhou - Journal of the Optical Society …, 2024‏ - opg.optica.org
We propose an optical approach to realizing Fano-type spectra of quadrature squeezing in a
double-cavity-waveguide structure based on photonic crystals (PhCs). In this scheme, a …

Sub-milliwatt optical frequency combs in dual-pumped high-Q multimode silicon resonators

Y Zhang, K Zhong, G Hu, D Yi, RR Kumar… - Applied Physics …, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally study the generation of optical frequency combs (OFCs) in dual-pumped
high-quality factor (> 10 6) multimode silicon racetrack resonators and show that sub …

Electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption in a compact silicon ring-bus-ring-bus system

Z Wang, Q Lu, Y Wang, J **a, Q Huang - Optics Express, 2017‏ - opg.optica.org
We have theoretically and experimentally demonstrated electromagnetically induced
transparency (EIT) and electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) phenomena in a …

Add-drop double bus microresonator array local oscillators for sharp multiple Fano resonance engineering

J Li, Y Qu, Y Wu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018‏ - pubs.aip.org
Asymmetric resonances are currently the subject of considerable research efforts in photonic
nanostructures. Here we propose a feasible method to achieve multiple Fano resonances …

Non-Hermitian and Topological Features of Photonic Systems

A Munoz De Las Heras - 2022‏ - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
This Thesis is devoted to the study of topological phases of matter in optical platforms,
focusing on non-Hermitian systems with gain and losses involving nonreciprocal elements …