Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

Adopting mode division multiplex (MDM) technology as the next frontier for optical fiber
communication and on-chip optical interconnection systems is becoming very promising …

Ultra-compact mode-order converters with dielectric slots are demonstrated on a silicon-on-
insulator platform. We propose a mode converter that converts the TE0 mode into the TE1 …

We have designed three mode order converters using the sub-wavelength grating on the
silicon-on-insulator substrate. The proposed mode order converters can separately realize …

Orthogonal eigenmodes in multimode waveguides are an indispensable physical dimension
for enhancing the capacity of optical communications, and efficient mode converters are …

Reconfigurable mode converters are essential components in efficient higher-order mode
sources for on-chip multimode applications. We propose an on-chip reconfigurable silicon …

Multimode silicon photonics, leveraging mode-division multiplexing technologies, offers
significant potential to increase capacity of large-scale multiprocessing systems for on-chip …

An ultracompact and highly flexible mode-order conversion scheme by exploiting reciprocal
mode transitions is proposed and investigated in detail, where an inverse/asymmetric input …

As the key component in on-chip mode-division multiplexing systems, a compact silicon
photonic-lantern mode (de) multiplexer is proposed and demonstrated using the shallow …

In this Letter, we design and experimentally demonstrate compact mode converters with a
lightning-like and arrow-like polygonal subwavelength grating (SWG) structure on a silicon …