Principles, fundamentals, and applications of programmable integrated photonics

D Pérez, I Gasulla, P Das Mahapatra… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Programmable integrated photonics is an emerging new paradigm that aims at designing
common integrated optical hardware resource configurations, capable of implementing an …

PWM‐driven thermally tunable silicon microring resonators: design, fabrication, and characterization

P Pintus, M Hofbauer, CL Manganelli… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ring resonators are one of the fundamental building blocks of advanced integrated optical
circuits. They find applications as nonlinear optical elements, filters, sensors, and switches …

Towards low loss non-volatile phase change materials in mid index waveguides

J Faneca, I Zeimpekis, ST Ilie, TD Bucio… - Neuromorphic …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic integrated circuits currently use platform intrinsic thermo-optic and electro-optic
effects to implement dynamic functions such as switching, modulation and other processing …

Fabrication-robust silicon photonic devices in standard sub-micron silicon-on-insulator processes

A Rizzo, U Dave, A Novick, A Freitas, SP Roberts… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Perturbations to the effective refractive index from nanometer-scale fabrication variations in
waveguide geometry plague high index-contrast photonic platforms; this includes the …

Fast FBG interrogator on chip based on silicon on insulator ring resonator add/drop filters

L Tozzetti, F Bontempi, A Giacobbe… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A fast FBG sensor interrogator on chip based on SOI ring resonator (RR) filters is presented.
The measurement of the Bragg wavelength shift is based on the detection of multiple signals …

Process variation-aware compact model of strip waveguides for photonic circuit simulation

A James, A Rizzo, Y Wang, A Novick… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a novel process variation-aware compact model of strip waveguides that is
suitable for circuit-level simulation of waveguide-based process design kit (PDK) elements …

Integrated reconfigurable silicon photonics switch matrix in IRIS project: Technological achievements and experimental results

F Testa, S Tondini, F Gambini, P Velha… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper reports the performances of a silicon photonics optical switch matrix fabricated by
using large-scale three-dimensional (3-D) integration. The wavelength selective optical …

Do different kinds of photon-pair sources have the same indistinguishability in quantum silicon photonics?

JM Lee, A Baldazzi, M Sanna, S Azzini, JT Ahn… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In the same silicon photonic integrated circuit, we compare two types of integrated
degenerate photon-pair sources (microring resonators and waveguides) using Hong–Ou …

Automatic initialization methods for photonic components on a silicon-based optical switch

S Tondini, C Castellan, MA Medina, L Pavesi - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Large scale photonic switches and routing technologies. Abstract In
this work we showed the optimization of the spectral response of several optical elements in …

Clearing a path for light through non-Hermitian media

UD Dave, GR Bhatt, JR Rodrigues, I Datta… - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
The performance of all active photonic devices today is greatly limited by loss. Here, we
show that one can engineer a low loss path in a metal-clad lossy multi-mode waveguide …