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Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-16 Omar Abou El Kheir , Dario Baratella , Marco Bernasconi

Electrically tunable devices contribute significantly to key functions of photonics integrated circuits. Here, we demonstrate the tuning of the optical index of refraction based on hybrid integration of multi-layered anisotropic GaGeTe on a…

Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) offer new paradigms for programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) thanks to their zero static energy and significant refractive index contrast. However, prototypical PCMs, such as GeSbTe…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-15 Rui Chen , Virat Tara , Jayita Dutta , Zhuoran Fang , Jiajiu Zheng , Arka Majumdar

Reconfigurability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has become increasingly important due to the growing demands for electronic-photonic systems on a chip driven by emerging applications, including neuromorphic computing, quantum…

Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) are widely applied in electronic and photonic applications, such as non-volatile memory and neuro-inspired computing. Doped Sb$_2$Te alloys are now gaining increasing attention for on-chip photonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Xu-Dong Wang , Wen Zhou , Hangming Zhang , Shehzad Ahmed , Tiankuo Huang , Riccardo Mazzarello , En Ma , Wei Zhang

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, and in-memory computing has reinvigorated research on scalable, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable photonic hardware. Non-volatile phase-change materials (PCMs) are attractive, as they offer…

Photonic quantum memristors provide a measurement-induced route to nonlinear and history-dependent quantum dynamics. Experimental demonstrations have so far focused on isolated devices or simple cascaded devices configurations. Here, we…

Flexible microelectronics has shown tremendous promise in a broad spectrum of applications, especially those that cannot be addressed by conventional microelectronics in rigid materials and constructions1-3. These unconventional yet…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-17 Yu Chen , Huan Li , Mo Li

In photonic neural network a key building block is the perceptron. Here, we describe and demonstrate a complex-valued photonic perceptron that combines time and space multiplexing in a fully passive silicon photonics integrated circuit. An…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Mattia Mancinelli , Davide Bazzanella , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

In this work, an optimized method was implemented for attaining stable multibit operation with low energy consumption in a two-terminal memory element made from the following layers: Ag/Pt nanoparticles (NPs)/SiO2/TiN in a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 G. Kleitsiotis , P. Bousoulas , S. D. Mantas , C. Tsioustas , I. A. Fyrigos , G. Sirakoulis , D. Tsoukalas

Large port count spatial optical switches will facilitate flexible and energy efficient data movement in future data communications systems, especially if they are capable of nanosecond-order reconfiguration times. In this work, we…

Photonic neural networks have significant potential for high-speed neural processing with low latency and ultralow energy consumption. However, the on-chip implementation of a large-scale neural network is still challenging owing to its low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Satoshi Sunada , Atsushi Uchida

Phase-change materials (PCMs) have emerged as key enablers of non-volatile, ultra-compact photonic switches for energy-efficient deep neural network (DNN) applications. In this work, we investigate the recently discovered…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Arpan Sur , Sudipta Saha , Chih-Yu Lee , Ichiro Takeuchi

Compact, non-volatile optical switches on silicon platforms are essential for reconfigurable photonics, but the strong anisotropy of silicon waveguides leads to polarization-dependent performance. In this paper, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Fangfa Bao , Jiakai Ruan , Weijia Li , Wei Zhang , Guoxiang Wang , Xiang Shen , Yixiao Gao

Reconfigurable photonic devices are rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of next generation optical technologies, with wide ranging applications in quantum simulation, neuromorphic computing, and large-scale photonic processors. A central…

Reconfigurable photonic devices capable of routing the flow of light enable flexible integrated-optic circuits that are not hard-wired but can be externally controlled. Analogous to free-space spatial light modulators, we demonstrate…

High-performance programmable silicon photonic circuits are considered to be a critical part of next generation architectures for optical processing, photonic quantum circuits and neural networks. Low-loss optical phase change materials…