Real photonic waveguides: guiding light through imperfections

D Melati, A Melloni, F Morichetti - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Real photonic waveguides are affected by structural imperfections due to fabrication
tolerances that cause scattering phenomena when the light propagates through. These …

Design challenges in silicon photonics

W Bogaerts, M Fiers, P Dumon - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is rapidly gaining maturity in high-bandwidth optical communication, with
applications in datacom, access networks, and I/O for bandwidth-intensive electronics. Also …

Highly parallel simulation and optimization of photonic circuits in time and frequency domain based on the deep-learning framework pytorch

F Laporte, J Dambre, P Bienstman - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We propose a new method for performing photonic circuit simulations based on the scatter
matrix formalism. We leverage the popular deep-learning framework PyTorch to reimagine …

Stochastic simulation and robust design optimization of integrated photonic filters

TW Weng, D Melati, A Melloni, L Daniel - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
Manufacturing variations are becoming an unavoidable issue in modern fabrication
processes; therefore, it is crucial to be able to include stochastic uncertainties in the design …

A unified approach for radiative losses and backscattering in optical waveguides

D Melati, F Morichetti, A Melloni - Journal of Optics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Sidewall roughness in optical waveguides represents a severe impairment for the proper
functionality of photonic integrated circuits. The interaction between the propagating mode …

Wideband integrated optical delay line based on a continuously tunable Mach–Zehnder interferometer

D Melati, A Waqas, Z Mushtaq… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated optical delay line is presented and experimentally demonstrated with a true-
time delay continuously tuned up to 125 ps. The proposed device is based on a Mach …

A Semi-Analytical Method for the S-Parameter Calculations of an N × M Multimode Interference Coupler

D Moskalev, A Kozlov, U Salgaeva, V Krishtop… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
A semi-analytical method for the S-parameter calculations of an N× M multimode
interference coupler (MMI coupler) is presented. The proposed semi-analytical method is …

Design methodologies for silicon photonic integrated circuits

L Chrostowski, J Flueckiger, C Lin… - Smart Photonic and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper describes design methodologies developed for silicon photonics integrated
circuits. The approach presented is inspired by methods employed in the Electronics Design …

Physics to system-level modeling of silicon-organic-hybrid nanophotonic devices

M Moridsadat, M Tamura, L Chrostowski, S Shekhar… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The continuous growth in data volume has sparked interest in silicon-organic-hybrid (SOH)
nanophotonic devices integrated into silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs). SOH …

Cascaded Mach–Zehnder architectures for photonic integrated delay lines

A Waqas, D Melati, A Melloni - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A continuously tunable integrated optical delay line architecture with large bandwidth and
bandwidth-delay product is proposed and demonstrated. The non-resonant delay line is …