A review of silicon‐based integrated optical switches

X Chen, J Lin, K Wang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, silicon‐integrated optical circuits have attracted intensive interests, thanks to the
compatibility with the complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology that …

Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond

P Prabhathan, KV Sreekanth, J Teng, JH Ko, YJ Yoo… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as a
platform for achieving diverse functionalities in active and reconfigurable micro …

Ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng, AI Khan, KM Neilson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Silicon photonics is evolving from laboratory research to real-world applications with the
potential to transform many technologies, including optical neural networks and quantum …

Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

R Chen, Z Fang, C Perez, F Miller, K Kumari… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the
current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional …

Reconfigurable neuromorphic computing: Materials, devices, and integration

M Xu, X Chen, Y Guo, Y Wang, D Qiu, X Du… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neuromorphic computing has been attracting ever‐increasing attention due to superior
energy efficiency, with great promise to promote the next wave of artificial general …

A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter

J Geler-Kremer, F Eltes, P Stark, D Stark, D Caimi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A novel class of programmable integrated photonic circuits has emerged over the past
years, strongly driven by approaches to tackle unsolved computing problems in the optical …

Nonvolatile phase-only transmissive spatial light modulator with electrical addressability of individual pixels

Z Fang, R Chen, JE Fröch, QAA Tanguy, AI Khan… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Active metasurfaces with tunable subwavelength-scale nanoscatterers are promising
platforms for high-performance spatial light modulators (SLMs). Among the tuning methods …

Non‐volatile optical switch element enabled by low‐loss phase change material

X Yang, L Lu, Y Li, Y Wu, Z Li, J Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) integrated with phase‐change materials
have attracted great interest due to their low power consumption and ultra‐compact size …

Opportunities and challenges for large-scale phase-change material integrated electro-photonics

R Chen, Z Fang, F Miller, H Rarick, JE Froch… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …

Photonic (computational) memories: tunable nanophotonics for data storage and computing

C Lian, C Vagionas, T Alexoudi, N Pleros… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The exponential growth of information stored in data centers and computational power
required for various data-intensive applications, such as deep learning and AI, call for new …