A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Broadband adiabatic polarization rotator-splitter based on a lithium niobate on insulator platform

Z Chen, J Yang, WH Wong, EYB Pun, C Wang - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Polarization rotator-splitters (PRSs) are crucial components for controlling the polarization
states of light in classical and quantum communication systems. We design and …

Supercontinuum generation in silicon photonics platforms

C Lafforgue, M Montesinos-Ballester, TTD Dinh… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear optics has not stopped evolving, offering opportunities to develop novel
functionalities in photonics. Supercontinuum generation, a nonlinear optical phenomenon …

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 …

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 …

Distillation of indistinguishable photons

J Marshall - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A reliable source of identical (indistinguishable) photons is a prerequisite for exploiting
interference effects, which is a necessary component for linear optical based quantum …

[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 …

Metamaterial-engineered silicon beam splitter fabricated with deep UV immersion lithography

V Vakarin, D Melati, TTD Dinh, X Le Roux, WKK Kan… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials have garnered a great interest for their
singular capability to shape the material properties and the propagation of light, allowing the …

High-performance on-chip silicon beamsplitter based on subwavelength metamaterials for enhanced fabrication tolerance

R Fernandez de Cabo, D González-Andrade… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Efficient power splitting is a fundamental functionality in silicon photonic integrated circuits,
but state-of-the-art power-division architectures are hampered by limited operational …