Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

Rejuvenating a versatile photonic material: thin‐film lithium niobate

A Honardoost, K Abdelsalam… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The excellent optical and unique material properties of lithium niobate have long
established it as a prevailing photonic material, especially for the long‐haul telecom …

Experimental demonstration of inverse-designed silicon integrated photonic power splitters

J Kim, JY Kim, J Yoon, H Yoon, HH Park, H Kurt - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The on-chip optical power splitter is a common and important device in photonic integrated
circuits (PICs). To achieve a low insertion loss and high uniformity while splitting the guided …

Programmable photonics: An opportunity for an accessible large-volume PIC ecosystem

W Bogaerts, A Rahim - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We look at the opportunities presented by the new concepts of generic programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PIC) to deploy photonics on a larger scale. Programmable PICs …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication and photonic applications of Si-integrated LiNbO3 and BaTiO3 ferroelectric thin films

Y Wen, H Chen, Z Wu, W Li, Y Zhang - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon, renowned for its applications in electronic circuits, also offers significant advantages
in the realm of integrated optics. While silicon does have inherent limitations in fabricating …

On‐demand mode conversion and wavefront sha** via on‐chip metasurfaces

L Deng, Y Xu, R **, Z Cai, Y Liu - Advanced Optical Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, mode conversion and wavefront sha** by integrating a metallic metasurface
on top of a planar waveguide are proposed and demonstrated. The metasurface consists of …

Towards large-scale programmable silicon photonic chip for signal processing

Y **e, J Wu, S Hong, C Wang, S Liu, H Li, X Ju, X Ke… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Optical signal processing has been playing a crucial part as powerful engine for various
information systems in the practical applications. In particular, achieving large-scale …

Generalized robust training scheme using genetic algorithm for optical neural networks with imprecise components

R Shao, G Zhang, X Gong - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
One of the pressing issues for optical neural networks (ONNs) is the performance
degradation introduced by parameter uncertainties in practical optical components. Hereby …

Deep neural networks for inverse design of nanophotonic devices

K Kojima, MH Tahersima, T Koike-Akino… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Deep learning is now playing a major role in designing photonic devices, including
nanostructured photonics. In this article, we investigate three models for designing …