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We report on the design, fabrication and testing of two superconducting passive microwave components, a quadrature hybrid and a 20 dB directional coupler. These components are designed to be integrated with superconducting qubits or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 H. S. Ku , F. Mallet , L. R. Vale , K. D. Irwin , S. E. Russek , G. C. Hilton , K. W. Lehnert

This paper focuses on robust transceiver design for throughput enhancement on the interference channel (IC), under imperfect channel state information (CSI). In this paper, two algorithms are proposed to improve the throughput of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ali Dalir , Hassan Aghaeinia , Mohammad Kazemi

A monolithic pixel sensor in deep-submicron Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology has been designed, manufactured and characterised. This technology is of significant interest for applications in particle tracking and imaging. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-07-02 Marco Battaglia , Dario Bisello , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener , Serena Mattiazzo , Chinh Vu

Fibre optic technology connects the world through the Internet, enables remote sensing, and connects disparate functional optical devices. Highly confined silicon photonics promises extreme scale and functional integration. However, the…

The use of the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform has been prominent for realizing CMOS-compatible, high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs). But in recent years, the silicon-nitride-on-silicon-dioxide (SiN-on-SiO$_2$) platform…

Developing compact, low-dissipation, cryogenic-compatible microwave electronics is essential for scaling up low-temperature quantum computing systems. In this paper, we demonstrate an ultra-compact microwave directional forward coupler…

We propose and demonstrate a self-coupled microring resonator for resonance splitting by mutual mode coupling of cavity mode and counter-propagating mode in Silicon-on-Insulator platform The resonator is constructed with a self-coupling…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-28 Awanish Pandey , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

Even though submicron silicon waveguides have been proposed for dense integration of photonic devices, to date the lightwave circuits on the market mainly rely on waveguides with micron-scale core dimensions. These larger waveguides feature…

The use of the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform has been prominent for realizing CMOS-compatible, high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs). But in recent years, the silicon-nitride-on-silicon-dioxide (SiN-on-SiO$_2$) platform…

High refractive index contrast optical microdisk resonators fabricated from silicon-on-insulator wafers are studied using an external silica fiber taper waveguide as a wafer-scale optical probe. Measurements performed in the 1500 nm…

The multimode waveguide bends (MWBs) with very compact sizes are the key building blocks in the applications of different mode-division multiplexing (MDM) systems. To further increase the transmission capacity, the silicon multimode…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 Juanli Wang , Shangsen Sun , Runsen Zhang , Fengchun Zhang , Ning Zhu

A recent computational result suggests that highly confined modes can be realized by all-dielectric metamaterials (S. Jahani et. al., Optica 1, 96 (2014)). This substantially decreases crosstalk between dielectric waveguides, paving the way…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-14 Amin Khavasi , Lukas Chrostowski , Zeqin Lu , Richard Bojko

Multiuser beamforming is considered for partially-connected millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. Based on perfect channel state information (CSI), a low-complexity hybrid beamforming scheme that decouples the analog beamformer and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chenhao Qi , Jinlin Hu , Yang Du , Arumugam Nallanathan

We have designed a polarization-splitting grating coupler (PSGC) in silicon-oninsulator (SOI) that has 1.2 dB peak loss in numerical simulations, which is the best simulated performance of PSGCs without a bottom reflector to the best of our…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-08 Peng Sun , Thomas Van Vaerenbergh , Sean Hooten , Raymond Beausoleil

We propose a multiscale spoof-insulator-spoof (SIS) waveguide by introducing periodic geometry modulation in the wavelength scale to a SIS waveguide made of perfect electric conductor. The MSIS consists of multiple SIS subcells. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Zhang , Jun Jun Xiao , Dezhuan Han , Fei Fei Qin , Xiao Ming Zhang , Yong Yao

Silicon ring resonators are used as photon pair sources by taking advantage of silicon's large third order nonlinearity with a process known as spontaneous four wave mixing. These sources are capable of producing pairs of indistinguishable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 C. C. Tison , J. A. Steidle , M. L. Fanto , Z. Wang , N. A. Mogent , A. Rizzo , S. F. Preble , P. M. Alsing

We demonstrate Fano-like resonances in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire-based coupled Sagnac interferometers (SIs) formed by a self-coupled waveguide. By adjusting the reflectivity of the two SIs and coupling strength between them, we…

We propose and numerically analyze the hybrid Si-Ge\textsubscript{2}Sb\textsubscript{2}Te\textsubscript{5} strip waveguide switches for Mid-IR wavelength of 2.1 $\mu$m. The switches investigated are one input-one output (on-off) type and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Nadir Ali , Rajesh Kumar

The development of low-loss reconfigurable integrated optical devices enables further research into technologies including photonic signal processing, analogue quantum computing, and optical neural networks. Here, we introduce digital…

The development of compact, energy-efficient integrated lasers operating at 1.3 um remains a critical focus in silicon photonics, essential for advancing data communications and optical interconnect technologies. This paper presents a…