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Mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) is attractive as a means to increase the link capacity of a single wavelength for optical interconnects via the use of multiple mode-channels in multimode bus waveguide.In order to route the data in MDM…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Hao Wu , Chenlei Li , Lijia Song , Hon-Ki Tsang , John E Bowers , Daoxin Dai

Photonics has been one of the primary beneficiaries of advanced silicon manufacturing. By leveraging on mature complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process nodes, unprecedented device uniformities and scalability have been…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-13 Luigi Ranno , Jia Xu Brian Sia , Khoi Phuong Dao , Juejun Hu

Recent advances in three-dimensional laser writing have enabled direct nanostructuring deep within silicon, unlocking a volumetric design space previously inaccessible to surface-bound nanophotonic devices. Here, we introduce subwavelength…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-29 Mehmet Bütün , Alperen Saltik , Onur Tokel

Localized electromagnetic modes and negligible Ohmic losses dictate the growing interest in subwavelength all-dielectric nanoparticles. Although an exhaustive volume of study dealt with interaction of all-dielectric nanostructures with…

The first demonstration of narrowband spectral filtering of multimode light on a 3D integrated photonic chip using photonic lanterns and waveguide Bragg gratings is reported. The photonic lanterns with multi-notch waveguide Bragg gratings…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-12 Izabela Spaleniak , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Robert J. Williams , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Ireland , Michael J. Withford

Multimode interference couplers are a fundamental building block in many integrated photonic systems, ranging from high-speed coherent receivers to quantum splitters. However, their basic structure has remained fundamentally unchanged for…

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) offer transformative potential for computing systems, enabling high-bandwidth neuromorphic processors and facilitating low decoherence quantum computing on a chip scale platform. However, the development…

We report the design, fabrication in a commercial foundry, and experimental results of high-efficiency, normal incidence grating couplers for silicon photonics. We observe a maximum coupling efficiency of 85.4% (-0.69 dB) with a 1 dB…

Efficient and coherent conversion between microwave and optical signals is crucial for a wide range of applications, from quantum information processing to microwave photonics and radar systems. However, existing conversion techniques rely…

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is becoming an enabling technique for large-capacity data communications via encoding the information on orthogonal guiding modes. However, the on-chip routing of a multimode waveguide occupies too large…

Waveguide crossings are elementary passive components for signal routing in photonic integrated circuits. Here, we design and characterize two multimode interferometer (MMI)-based waveguide crossings to serve the various routing directions…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yikun Chen , Ke Zhang , Hanke Feng , Wenzhao Sun , Cheng Wang

Large propagation path loss and limited scattering of millimeter wave (mmwave) channels create new challenges for physical layer signal processing. Hence, in this article, we propose a photonic hybrid precoding model for mmwave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yahia Alghorani

We propose and demonstrate a hybrid waveguide platform using layered amorphous silicon and silicon nitride. The waveguide offers more degrees of freedom to design waveguides with desired confinement, effective index and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 Rahul K Dash , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

Femtosecond laser writing in glass was harnessed to fabricate photonic circuits comprised of waveguides, micro-mirrors, and fiber sockets, in an optical interposer chip. The compact design enabled ultra-dense routing of 40 optical channels…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-02 Gligor Djogo , Amir Rahimnouri , Peter R Herman

We demonstrate full integration of vertical optical ring resonators with silicon nanophotonic waveguides on silicon-on-insulator substrates to accomplish a significant step towards 3D photonic integration. The on-chip integration is…

Dielectric optical waveguides constitute the main building blocks of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Channels with high refractive index contrast can provide very compact PIC components whereas structures with lower index exhibit less…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-31 Hamed Nikbakht , Bob van Someren , Manfred Hammer , B. Imran Akca

Broadband low loss and ultra-low crosstalk waveguide crossings are a crucial component for photonic integrated circuits to allow a higher integration density of functional components and an increased flexibility in the layout. We report the…

Photonic integrated circuits are gaining traction in the field of telecommunications and information processing for their low-loss and high-throughput data transmission in comparison to electronic integrated circuits. However, they are…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Fahmy Yousry , Panu Hildén , Radoslaw Kolkowski , Andriy Shevchenko

We propose a dataset-based photonic simulation framework for multimode waveguide design, enabling ultra-fast simulations with high accuracy. Compared to conventional approaches, our method offers two to three orders of magnitude speed-up in…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jaesung Song , Young-Ik Sohn

This paper reports on 3D-printed dielectric image lines for low-loss subTHz applications between 140 and 220 GHz. In contrast to conventional dielectric waveguides, a conductive copper substrate is used to achieve robust routing and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Leonhard Hahn , Tim Pfahler , Tobias Bader , Gerald Gold , Martin Vossiek , Christian Carlowitz