Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers

A Li, C Yao, J **a, H Wang, Q Cheng, R Penty… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
The proliferation of Internet-of-Things has promoted a wide variety of emerging applications
that require compact, lightweight, and low-cost optical spectrometers. While substantial …

Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link

A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji, S Daudlin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning is critically
challenging data communications in today's data-centre systems. Data movement …

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 …

3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics

C **ang, W **, O Terra, B Dong, H Wang, L Wu, J Guo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits are widely used in applications such as telecommunications and
data-centre interconnects,,,–. However, in optical systems such as microwave synthesizers …

General-purpose programmable photonic processor for advanced radiofrequency applications

D Pérez-López, A Gutierrez, D Sánchez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A general-purpose photonic processor can be built integrating a silicon photonic
programmable core in a technology stack comprising an electronic monitoring and …

Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices

J Jiang, M Chen, JA Fan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The data-science revolution is poised to transform the way photonic systems are simulated
and designed. Photonic systems are, in many ways, an ideal substrate for machine learning …

Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials

C Ríos, Q Du, Y Zhang, CC Popescu, MY Shalaginov… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

Avalanche photodiode with ultrahigh gain–bandwidth product of 1,033 GHz

Y Shi, X Li, G Chen, M Zou, H Cai, Y Yu, X Zhang - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have enabled highly sensitive photodetection in optical
communication, sensing and quantum applications. Great efforts have been focused on …