Methods and applications of on-chip beam splitting: A review

Y Xu, Z Tian, X Meng, Z Chai - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The construction of large-scale integrated photonic circuit cannot be separated from the
important role played by silicon-based optoelectronic devices. As a basic and important link …

Progress on chip-based spontaneous four-wave mixing quantum light sources

H Wang, Q Zeng, H Ma, Z Yuan - Advanced Devices & …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Quantum light generated through spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) process in
nonlinear materials, such as entangled photon pairs and single photons, is an important …

Short, broadband, and polarization-insensitive adiabatic Y-junction power splitters

C Ozcan, M Mojahedi, J Stewart Aitchison - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Adiabatic Y-junction power splitters have low loss, large bandwidth, high polarization
insensitivity, and high tolerance to fabrication errors. However, the adiabatic transition …

Ultrabroadband and compact 2× 2 3-dB coupler based on trapezoidal subwavelength gratings

R Hu, L Sun, Z Zhang, Q Sun, Y Pan, Y Su - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an ultrabroadband and compact 2× 2 3-dB
coupler based on the trapezoidal subwavelength gratings (SWGs). The adiabatic coupling is …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental characterization of an ultra-broadband dual-mode symmetric Y–junction based on metamaterial waveguides

RF de Cabo, J Vilas, P Cheben, AV Velasco… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon photonic integrated circuits routinely require 3-dB optical power dividers with minimal
losses, small footprints, ultra-wide bandwidths, and relaxed manufacturing tolerances to …

Aluminum nitride out-of-plane piezoelectric MEMS actuators

AAS Rabih, M Kazemi, M Ménard, F Nabki - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrating microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuators with low-loss suspended
silicon nitride waveguides enables the precise alignment of these waveguides to other …

Lightening-transformer: A dynamically-operated optically-interconnected photonic transformer accelerator

H Zhu, J Gu, H Wang, Z Jiang, Z Zhang… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wide adoption and significant computing resource cost of attention-based transformers,
eg, Vision Transformers and large language models, have driven the demand for efficient …

[HTML][HTML] M3ICRO: Machine learning-enabled compact photonic tensor core based on programmable multi-operand multimode interference

J Gu, H Zhu, C Feng, Z Jiang, RT Chen… - APL Machine Learning, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic computing shows promise for transformative advancements in machine learning
(ML) acceleration, offering ultrafast speed, massive parallelism, and high energy efficiency …

Compact polarization-independent quasi-adiabatic 2× 2 3 dB coupler on silicon

HC Chung, CH Chen, YJ Hung, SY Tseng - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a quasi-adiabatic polarization-independent 2× 2 3 dB coupler based on the
silicon-on-insulator platform. Using a quasi-adiabatic taper design for the mode …

Small multimode interferometer with simplified coherent coupling branches used to develop a lower footprint power splitter on silicon-on-insulator platform

R Peyton, J Martínez Valdiviezo, D Presti… - Optical …, 2025 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We introduced a innovative approach to fabricating a 1× 2 power splitter under the silicon-on-
insulator (SOI) platform, which can be scaled to a 1× N system device. The current design …