Transparent conducting oxides for electro-optical plasmonic modulators

VE Babicheva, A Boltasseva, AV Lavrinenko - Nanophotonics, 2015 - degruyter.com
The ongoing quest for ultra-compact optical devices has reached a bottleneck due to the
diffraction limit in conventional photonics. New approaches that provide subwavelength …

Tutorial: Integrated-photonic switching structures

R Soref - Apl Photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Recent developments in waveguided 2× 2 and N× M photonic switches are reviewed,
including both broadband and narrowband resonant devices for the Si, InP, and AlN …

The main role of thermal annealing in controlling the structural and optical properties of ITO thin film layer

M Ahmed, A Bakry, A Qasem, H Dalir - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, indium tin oxide (ITO) films (~ 350 nm) were prepared using the electron beam
gun technology. Influence of thermal treatment of the films at a variety of temperatures on the …

[HTML][HTML] 0.52 V mm ITO-based Mach-Zehnder modulator in silicon photonics

R Amin, R Maiti, C Carfano, Z Ma, MH Tahersima… - Apl Photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators transform electronic signals into the optical domain and are critical
components in modern telecommunication networks, RF photonics, and emerging …

Experimental investigation of silicon and silicon nitride platforms for phase-change photonic in-memory computing

X Li, N Youngblood, Z Cheng, SGC Carrillo, E Gemo… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Advances in artificial intelligence have greatly increased demand for data-intensive
computing. Integrated photonics is a promising approach to meet this demand in big-data …

Neuromorphic photonics with electro-absorption modulators

JK George, A Mehrabian, R Amin, J Meng… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Photonic neural networks benefit from both the high-channel capacity and the wave nature
of light acting as an effective weighting mechanism through linear optics. Incorporating a …

Unidirectional reflectionless light propagation at exceptional points

Y Huang, Y Shen, C Min, S Fan, G Veronis - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of unidirectional reflectionless light
propagation in photonic devices at exceptional points (EPs). EPs, which are branch point …

Waveguide-based electro-absorption modulator performance: comparative analysis

R Amin, JB Khurgin, VJ Sorger - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators perform a key function for data processing and communication.
Rapid growth in data volume and increasing bits per second rates demand increased …

Fundamental scaling laws in nanophotonics

K Liu, S Sun, A Majumdar, VJ Sorger - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The success of information technology has clearly demonstrated that miniaturization often
leads to unprecedented performance, and unanticipated applications. This hypothesis of …

Two-dimensional material-based mode confinement engineering in electro-optic modulators

Z Ma, MH Tahersima, S Khan… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to modulate light using 2-dimensional (2D) materials is fundamentally challenged
by their small optical cross-section leading to miniscule modal confinements in diffraction …