Herein, an attention-grabbing and up-to-date review related to major multiplexing
techniques is presented which includes wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) …

Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

On-chip photonic neural networks (PNN) are emerging as an attractive solution for artificial
neural networks due to their high computing density, low energy consumption, and compact …

The multi-dimensional multiplexing technology is very promising for further increasing the
link capacity of optical interconnects. A 96-channel silicon-based on-chip reconfigurable …

Grating‐assisted contra‐directional couplers are important optical components in photonic
integrated circuits (PICs), which can serve as fundamental building blocks for optical (de) …

Tunable mode converter is a key component of channel switching and routing for optical
communication system by adopting mode-division multiplexing. Traditional mode converter …

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

To overcome the capacity crunch of optical communications based on the traditional single-
mode fiber (SMF), different modes in a few-mode fiber (FMF) can be employed for mode …

A design of a 1× 2 multimode 3 dB optical power splitter using tapered couplers is proposed
and investigated in this paper. As an example, a 1× 2 splitter processing five-lowest order …

In this paper, an on-chip silicon polarization beam splitter using a particle-swarm-optimized
counter-tapered directional coupler is proposed, designed, and fabricated. The coupling …