Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

H Subbaraman, X Xu, A Hosseini, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Low-loss ultracompact transverse-magnetic-pass polarizer with a silicon subwavelength grating waveguide

X Guan, P Chen, S Chen, P Xu, Y Shi, D Dai - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
An ultracompact and low-loss TM-pass polarizer on silicon is proposed and demonstrated
experimentally with a subwavelength-grating (SWG) waveguide. The SWG waveguide is …

A marriage of convenience: Hybridization of surface plasmon and dielectric waveguide modes

MZ Alam, JS Aitchison… - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonics has attracted a lot of interest in the past few years because of its unique
features, especially for its ability to confine light in extremely small volumes. However …

Silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for on-chip multiplexing and switching

D Dai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A review is given on our recent progresses in silicon nanophotonic integrated devices for
multiplexing and switching, which are key elements in a multichannel multiplexed photonic …

Advanced passive silicon photonic devices with asymmetric waveguide structures

D Dai - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various passive photonic integrated devices have been developed successfully with silicon-
on-insulator (SOI) nanowires in the past decade. It is well known that SOI-nanowire …

Anisotropic metamaterial-assisted all-silicon polarizer with 415-nm bandwidth

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Photonics Research, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Polarizers have been widely used in various optical systems to reduce polarization cross
talk. The polarizers based on the silicon nanowire waveguide can provide chip-scale device …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrahigh-extinction-ratio and broadband all-silicon TM-pass polarizer by employing multimode anti-symmetric apodized Bragg grating

G Cheng, Q Yi, Z Yan, Q Li, F Xu, C Sima, L Shen - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip polarizers are the essential components for polarization management in integrated
systems. Hence, polarizers with broad operation bandwidth (BW), low insert loss (IL), and …

Ultra-compact TE-pass polarizer with graphene multilayer embedded in a silicon slot waveguide

X Yin, T Zhang, L Chen, X Li - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A novel silicon slot waveguide TE-pass polarizer with graphene multilayer embedded in the
slot is proposed and demonstrated by utilization of the fact that the variation of the modal …

Compact silicon TE-pass polarizer using adiabatically-bent fully-etched waveguides

H Zafar, P Moreira, AM Taha, B Paredes… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A high-performance integrated silicon TE-pass polarizer is proposed and demonstrated. The
polarizer uses a series of adiabatic waveguide bends that yield high extinction ratio for the …