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Optical interconnect is a potential solution to attain the large bandwidth on-chip communications needed in high performance computers in a low power and low cost manner. Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is an emerging technology that…
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…
We present an evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications known as the tri-hybrid MIMO architecture. In this framework, the traditional operations of linear precoding at the transmitter are distributed across…
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The escalating demands of compute-intensive applications urgently necessitate the adoption of optical interconnect technologies to overcome bottlenecks in scaling computing systems. This requires fully exploiting the inherent parallelism of…
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Modern microelectronic processors have migrated towards parallel computing architectures with many-core processors. However, such expansion comes with diminishing returns exacted by the high cost of data movement between individual…
On-chip mode division (de)multiplexing plays a significant role in the integrated devices to greatly improve communication capacity. One of the pursuing goals of mode division (de)multiplexer is how to realize such devices with larger…
In this paper, two novel hybrid beamforming methods are proposed to reduce the cost and power consumption of hybrid beamformers with subconnected phase shifter network structure in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This…