Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Software-defined nanophotonic devices and systems empowered by machine learning

Y Xu, B Xiong, W Ma, Y Liu - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanophotonic devices, such as metasurfaces and silicon photonic components, have been
progressively demonstrated to be efficient and versatile alternatives to their bulky …

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 …

Inverse design of digital nanophotonic devices using the adjoint method

K Wang, X Ren, W Chang, L Lu, D Liu… - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A high-efficiency inverse design of “digital” subwavelength nanophotonic devices using the
adjoint method is proposed. We design a single-mode 3 dB power divider and a dual-mode …

Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation

J Xiang, Z Tao, X Li, Y Zhao, Y He, X Guo… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
On-chip spatial mode operation, represented as mode-division multiplexing (MDM), can
support high-capacity data communications and promise superior performance in various …

Inverse design for silicon photonics: from iterative optimization algorithms to deep neural networks

S Mao, L Cheng, C Zhao, FN Khan, Q Li, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is a low-cost and versatile platform for various applications. For design of
silicon photonic devices, the light-material interaction within its complex subwavelength …

Digital nanophotonics: The highway to the integration of subwavelength-scale photonics: Ultra-compact, multi-function nanophotonic design based on computational …

J Huang, H Ma, D Chen, H Yuan, J Zhang, Z Li… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonic devices with high densities are extremely attractive because they can
potentially merge photonics and electronics at the nanoscale. However, traditional …

Deep learning enabled design of complex transmission matrices for universal optical components

NJ Dinsdale, PR Wiecha, M Delaney, J Reynolds… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent breakthroughs in photonics-based quantum, neuromorphic, and analogue
processing have pointed out the need for new schemes for fully programmable …

Tunable on-chip mode converter enabled by inverse design

H Zhou, K Liao, Z Su, T Li, G Geng, J Li, Y Wang… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Tunable mode converter is a key component of channel switching and routing for optical
communication system by adopting mode-division multiplexing. Traditional mode converter …

Miniaturized silicon photonics devices for integrated optical signal processors

M Teng, A Honardoost, Y Alahmadi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated optical signal processors, in combination with conventional electrical signal
processors, are envisioned to open a path to a new generation of signal processing …