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 …

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 …

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely adopted in object recognition, speech
processing and machine translation, due to their extremely high inference accuracy …

The beam splitters are essential optical components that are widely used in various optical
instruments. The robustness of beam splitters is very necessary to all-optical networks. Here …

We propose and demonstrate a 1× 2 power splitter enabling arbitrary power splitting ratios.
The device is based on a directional coupler with subwavelength structure in the coupling …

Plasmonic waveguides allow focusing, guiding, and manipulating light at the nanoscale and
promise the miniaturization of functional optical nanocircuits. Dielectric-loaded plasmonic …

The present study proposes a novel nanoscale multimode interference (MMI) power splitter
utilizing an InP-based hybrid plasmonic waveguide at an optical communication …

An active metal strip hybrid plasmonic waveguide (MSHPW) using gain materials as loss
compensation is proposed with an extremely simple fabrication procedure. Gain materials …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have shown unprecedented potential for miniaturizing
photonic devices beyond the optical diffraction limit. However, their high intrinsic loss from …

A beam splitter (BS) is one of the most critical building blocks in optical systems. Despite
various attempts of flat‐type BSs to miniaturize the conventional cube BS reported, it …