Applications of nanolasers

RM Ma, RF Oulton - Nature nanotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Nanolasers generate coherent light at the nanoscale. In the past decade, they have attracted
intense interest, because they are more compact, faster and more power-efficient than …

Advances in functional solution processed planar 1D photonic crystals

P Lova, G Manfredi, D Comoretto - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Low-threshold nanolasers based on miniaturized bound states in the continuum

Y Ren, P Li, Z Liu, Z Chen, YL Chen, C Peng, J Liu - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The pursuit of compact lasers with low thresholds has imposed strict requirements on tight
light confinements with minimized radiation losses. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) …

Photon-trapping microstructures enable high-speed high-efficiency silicon photodiodes

Y Gao, H Cansizoglu, KG Polat, S Ghandiparsi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-speed, high-efficiency photodetectors play an important role in optical communication
links that are increasingly being used in data centres to handle higher volumes of data traffic …

Integrated silicon photonic microresonators: emerging technologies

Z Yao, K Wu, BX Tan, J Wang, Y Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is becoming the leading technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
due to large-scale integration, low cost, and high-volume productions enabled by …

Techno-economic comparison of silicon photonics and multimode VCSELs

D Mahgerefteh, C Thompson, C Cole… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Recent technical and commercial milestones in Silicon Photonics technology including its
introduction into commercial foundries, and successful integration of most optical …

Feedforward and recurrent neural network-based transfer learning for nonlinear equalization in short-reach optical links

Z Xu, C Sun, T Ji, JH Manton, W Shieh - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Neural network (NN)-based nonlinear equalizers have been shown effective for various
types of short-reach direct detection systems. However, they work best for a certain channel …

Low-complexity multi-task learning aided neural networks for equalization in short-reach optical interconnects

Z Xu, S Dong, JH Manton, W Shieh - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
With the rapid development of machine learning technologies in recent years, different types
of neural network (NN)-based equalizers have been proposed and proved to be efficient …

A 32 Gb/s, 4.7 pJ/bit optical link with− 11.7 dBm sensitivity in 14-nm FinFET CMOS

JE Proesel, Z Toprak-Deniz, A Cevrero… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 32 Gb/s non-return-to-zero optical link using 850-nm vertical-cavity
surface-emitting laser-based multi-mode optics with 14-nm bulk FinFET CMOS circuits. The …

InP-based foundry PICs for optical interconnects

FM Soares, M Baier, T Gaertner, N Grote, M Moehrle… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper describes a fabrication process for realizing Indium-Phosphide-based photonic-
integrated circuits (PICs) with a high level of integration to target a wide variety of optical …