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On-chip photonic networks have the potential to transmit and route information more efficiently than electronic circuits. Recently, a number of silicon-based optical devices including modulators, buffers, and wavelength converts have been…
Silicon-based integrated photonics has demonstrated significant advances in miniaturization and performance, yet critical challenges remain in achieving efficient on-chip communication at high bandwidths. Plasmonic devices on silicon and…
We report design of a high static performance on-off optical switch using nanoscale phase change material Ge2Sb2Te5 embedded into silicon-on-insulator waveguide. This active material can be switched between amorphous and crystalline states…
In this work, we demonstrate a compact toolkit of inverse-designed topologically optimized silicon-photonic devices that are arranged in a plug-and-play fashion to realize many different photonic integrated circuits, both passive and…
Nonvolatile photonic integrated circuits employing phase change materials have relied either on optical switching mechanisms with precise multi-level control but poor scalability or electrical switching with seamless integration and…
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Silicon photonic integrated circuits offer significant improvements in processing bandwidth, power efficiency, and low latency, addressing the needs of future microwave communication systems. Several successful applications have been…
In this work, we describe a procedure for synthesizing racetrack resonators with large quality factors and apply it to realize a multi-channel wavelength-selective switch (WSS) on a silicon photonic chip. We first determine the contribution…
We propose and demonstrate hybrid all-optical switching devices that combine silicon nanocavities and two-dimensional semiconductor material. By exploiting the refractive index modulation caused by photo-induced carriers in the…
Topological photonics provides a robust framework for strategically controlling light confinement and propagation dynamics. By exploiting the marriage between this notion and symmetry-constrained mode competition in an active setting, we…
The demand for structured light with a reconfigurable spatial and polarization distribution has been increasing across a wide range of fundamental and advanced photonics applications, including microscopy, imaging, sensing, communications,…
Ultrafast all-optical magnetization switching (AOS) holds great promise for nextgeneration spintronic memory and hybrid spintronic-photonic systems. However, most implementations to date rely on bulky free-space optical setups, limiting…
We present a simple and compact approach of structured illumination microscopy by using three $2\times2$ fiber couplers and one $1\times4$ MEMS optics switch. One uniform and three fringe illumination patterns were produced by placing seven…
Silicon carbide (SiC) displays a unique combination of optical and spin-related properties that make it interesting for photonics and quantum technologies. However, guiding light by total internal reflection can be difficult to achieve,…
We derive in the present work topological photonic states purely based on silicon, a conventional dielectric material, by deforming a honeycomb lattice of silicon cylinders into a triangular lattice of cylinder hexagons. The photonic…
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) devices are key elements of Photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Conventional WDM devices based on silicon waveguides and photonic crystals have limited transmittance due to high loss introduced by the…
Optical isolation is a long pursued object with fundamental difficulty in integrated photonics. As a step towards this goal, we demonstrate the design, fabrication, and characterization of on-chip wavelength-scale optical diodes that are…
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…
The growing demand for more efficient data transmission has made nanoscale high-throughput all-optical switching a critical requirement in modern telecommunication systems. Metasurface-based platforms offer unique advantages because of…