Silicon photonics is a technology based on fabricating integrated optical circuits by using the
same paradigms as the dominant electronics industry. After twenty years of fervid …

Photonic implementations of reservoir computing (RC) promise to reach ultra-high
bandwidth of operation with moderate training efforts. Several optoelectronic demonstrations …

Among the promising advantages of photonic computing over conventional computing
architectures is the potential to increase computing efficiency through massive parallelism …

We numerically demonstrate a microring-based time-delay reservoir computing scheme that
simultaneously solves three tasks involving time-series prediction, classification, and …

In this thesis, second order optical nonlinearities in silicon waveguides are studied. At the
beginning, the strained silicon platform is investigated in detail. In recent years, second …

PRECISE, Photonic hybRid EleCtromagnetIc SolvEr, is a Matlab-based library to model
large and complex photonic integrated circuits. Each circuit is modularly described in terms …

This manuscript investigates the use of microring resonators to create all-optical reservoir-
computing networks implemented in silicon photonics. Artificial neural networks and …

Microresonators are fundamental building blocks in the growing field of integrated photonics
and several resonator-based devices such as filters, switches and routers are currently used …

The aim of this thesis is to describe a theoretical model for the generation of entangled
photons inside silicon optic chips. In particular, the structure I am going to study is composed …

High order waveguide modes are nowadays of great interest for the development of new
functionalities in photonics. Because of this, efficient mode couplers are required. In this …