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 …

Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light

C Sun, MT Wade, Y Lee, JS Orcutt, L Alloatti… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Data transport across short electrical wires is limited by both bandwidth and power density,
which creates a performance bottleneck for semiconductor microchips in modern computer …

Monolithic silicon-photonic platforms in state-of-the-art CMOS SOI processes

V Stojanović, RJ Ram, M Popović, S Lin, S Moazeni… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Integrating photonics with advanced electronics leverages transistor performance, process
fidelity and package integration, to enable a new class of systems-on-a-chip for a variety of …

Observation of topologically enabled unidirectional guided resonances

X Yin, J **, M Soljačić, C Peng, B Zhen - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Unidirectional radiation is important for various optoelectronic applications, such as lasers,
grating couplers and optical antennas. However, almost all existing unidirectional emitters …

Monolithically integrated multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide platforms for 3-D photonic circuits and devices

WD Sacher, JC Mikkelsen, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and provide additional details about our progress on multilayer
silicon nitride (SiN)-on-silicon (Si) integrated photonic platforms. In these platforms, one or …

Serpentine optical phased arrays for scalable integrated photonic lidar beam steering

N Dostart, B Zhang, A Khilo, M Brand, K Al Qubaisi… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical phased arrays (OPAs) implemented in integrated photonic circuits could enable a
variety of 3D sensing, imaging, illumination, and ranging applications, and their …

A 45 nm CMOS-SOI monolithic photonics platform with bit-statistics-based resonant microring thermal tuning

C Sun, M Wade, M Georgas, S Lin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microring resonator is critical for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) chip-
to-chip optical I/O, enabling modulation and channel selection at the-scale suitable for a …

Topological unidirectional guided resonances emerged from interband coupling

X Yin, T Inoue, C Peng, S Noda - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Unidirectional guided resonances (UGRs) are optical modes in photonic crystal slabs that
radiate toward one side without the need for mirrors on the other. In this Letter, we report a …

A 40-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter based on a ring-resonator optical DAC in 45-nm SOI CMOS

S Moazeni, S Lin, M Wade, L Alloatti… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generations of large-scale data-centers and supercomputers demand optical
interconnects to migrate to 400G and beyond. Microring modulators in silicon-photonics …

Perfect single-sided radiation and absorption without mirrors

H Zhou, B Zhen, CW Hsu, OD Miller, SG Johnson… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Highly directional radiation from photonic structures is important for many applications,
including high-power photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers, grating couplers, and light …