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CMOS-compatible photonic chips are highly desirable for real-world quantum optics devices due to their scalability, robustness, and integration with electronics. Despite impressive advances using Silicon nanostructures, challenges remain in…

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Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Umer Farooq , M. Aqeel Iqbal

Brain-inspired computing concepts like artificial neural networks have become promising alternatives to classical von Neumann computer architectures. Photonic neural networks target the realizations of neurons, network connections and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-11-24 T. Heuser , M. Pflüger , I. Fischer , J. A. Lott , D. Brunner , S. Reitzenstein

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a highly promising material for the rapidly growing UV detection industry due to its visible-blindness, low dark current, and exceptional thermal and chemical stability. Despite these advantages, the performance of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Joonas Isometsä , Auguste Bieleviciute , Xiaolong Liu , Ville Vähänissi , Hele Savin

Silicon photonic devices are poised to enter high volume markets such as data-communications, telecommunications, biological sensing, and optical phased arrays; however, permanently attaching a fiber to the photonic chip with high optical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Juniyali Nauriyal , Meiting Song , Raymond Yu , Jaime Cardenas

Photonic integrated circuits utilize planar waveguides to process light on a chip, encompassing functions like generation, routing, modulation, and detection. Similar to the advancements in the electronics industry, photonics research is…

The Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) is a mature photodetector concept that is applied in a variety of applications ranging from medical imaging to automotive LiDAR systems. Over the last few years, improvements of the sensor performance are…

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Ultrahigh quality factor (Q) microcavities have been emerging as an appealing compact photonic platform for various applications. The Q factor plays a critical role in determining the nonlinear optical performance of a microcavity. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-04 Jiadu Xie , Yang Wang , Hui Kang , Jinsong Cheng , Xiaoqin Shen

Analog photonic computing has been proposed and tested in recent years as an alternative approach for data recovery in fiber transmission systems. Photonic reservoir computing, performing nonlinear transformations of the transmitted signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Irene Estébanez , Shi Li , Janek Schwind , Ingo Fischer , Stephan Pachnicke , Apostolos Argyris

Accurate characterization of quantum yield is crucial to the reconstruction of energy depositions in silicon at the eV scale. This work presents a new method for experimentally calculating quantum yield using vacuum UV-sensitive silicon…

Traditional von Neumann architectures suffer from fundamental bottlenecks due to continuous data movement between memory and processing units, a challenge that worsens with technology scaling as electrical interconnect delays become more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Sugeet Sunder , Ajey P. Jacob , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Superconductor electronics (SCE) is a promising complementary and beyond CMOS technology. However, despite its practical benefits, the realization of SCE logic faces a significant challenge due to the absence of dense and scalable…

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Vanadium dioxide ($VO_{2}$) exhibits strong infrared optical switching due to its insulator-metal phase-transition property. However, in the visible wavelengths, it's intrinsic optical switching is quite low. Current research explores…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Shubhangi Saini , Ashok P , Amit Verma

An ultralow-V{\pi}L photonic switch device is demonstrated utilizing the high optical and electrical field confinement in silicon slot waveguides coupled with the strong electro-optic response of nematic liquid crystals. A silicon photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-22 Li-Yuan Chiang , Chun-Ta Wang , Steve Pappert , Paul K. L. Yu

The unusual features of quantum mechanics are enabling the development of technologies not possible with classical physics. These devices utilize nonclassical phenomena in the states of atoms, ions, and solid-state media as the basis for…

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Silicon is now firmly established as a high performance photonic material. Its only weakness is the lack of a native electrically driven light emitter that operates CW at room temperature, exhibits a narrow linewidth in the technologically…

The recent progress in chip-scale integrated photonics has stimulated the rapid development of material platforms with desired optical properties. Among the different material platforms that are currently investigated, the third-generation…

At present, ultraviolet sensors are utilized in numerous fields ranging from various spectroscopy applications via biotechnical innovations to industrial process control. Despite of this, the performance of current UV sensors is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 M. Garin , J. Heinonen , L. Werner , T. P. Pasanen , V. Vähänissi , A. Haarahiltunen , M. Juntunen , H. Savin

3D printing of high-quality silica photonic structures is particularly challenging, as surface roughness at the nanoscale can severely degrade optical performance through scattering losses. Here, we develop a technique to fold ultrasmooth…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 Manya Malhotra , Ronen Ben-Daniel , Fan Cheng , Tal Carmon