Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Arbitrarily routed mode-division multiplexed photonic circuits for dense integration

Y Liu, K Xu, S Wang, W Shen, H Xie, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
On-chip integrated mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is an emerging technique for large-
capacity data communications. In the past few years, while several configurations have been …

Silicon chip-scale space-division multiplexing: from devices to system

Y Yu, C Sun, X Zhang - Science China Information Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Space-division multiplexing (SDM) technique has attracted increasing attentions
recently, because it provides an effective way to increase transmission capacity. With the …

Ultra-compact mode-division multiplexed photonic integrated circuit for dual polarizations

Y Liu, Z Wang, Y Liu, X Wang, X Guo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization and mode division multiplexing are powerful tools for large-capacity parallel
optical communications. Dual-polarization and mode-division multiplexed silicon photonic …

An ultra-compact 3-dB power splitter for three modes based on pixelated meta-structure

H Xie, Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Wang, Y Yao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-compact and efficient 3-dB power splitter for mode division multiplexing is proposed
and demonstrated experimentally in this letter. The device is realized via pixelated meta …

Subwavelength engineering in silicon photonic devices

W Zhou, Z Cheng, X Chen, K Xu, X Sun… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in using subwavelength-scale
nanostructures with elaborately designed periodic and disordered photonic materials for …

Fabrication and integration of photonic devices for phase-change memory and neuromorphic computing

W Zhou, X Shen, X Yang, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in integrating chalcogenide phase-
change materials (PCMs) on the silicon photonic platform for non-volatile memory to …

On-chip reconfigurable and scalable optical mode multiplexer/demultiplexer based on three-waveguide-coupling structure

H Xiao, Z Liu, XU Han, J Yang, G Ren, A Mitchell… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Reconfigurable optical mode multiplexers/demultiplexers have attracted increasing attention
in the academic community, because they enable convenient construction of flexible and …

Hybrid WDM-MDM transmitter with an integrated Si modulator array and a micro-resonator comb source

C Li, H Zhang, G Zhou, L Lu, M Jin, J Dong, L Zhou… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a multi-channel silicon photonic transmitter based on wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) and mode division multiplexing (MDM). The light source is realized by a …

Mode Conversion Trimming in Asymmetric Directional Couplers Enabled by Silicon Ion Implantation

R Xu, S Taheriniya, A Varri, M Ulanov, I Konyshev… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
An on-chip asymmetric directional coupler (DC) can convert fundamental modes to higher-
order modes and is one of the core components of mode-division multiplexing (MDM) …