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A novel design of large bandwidth, fabrication tolerant, CMOS-compatible compact tapers (15 um) have been proposed and experimentally demonstrated in silicon-on-insulator. The proposed taper along with linear grating couplers for spot-size…
In this paper we investigate the design of compressive antenna arrays for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation that aim to provide a larger aperture with a reduced hardware complexity by a linear combination of the antenna outputs to a…
We present an accurate and fast 3D simulation scheme for out-of-plane grating couplers, based on two dimensional rigorous (finite difference time domain) grating simulations, the effective index method (EIM), and the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld…
We demonstrate for the first time, a new type of aperiodic phase mask (APM) for fabricating multi-channel aperiodic fiber Bragg gratings. The mask is made of individual diffraction phase gratings with discrete unequal phase-steps…
We present a silicon-nitride-based optical phased array with built-in focusing and steering capability, that operates at 522 nm and is aimed at complementing a micro-electrode array for joint electrical and optical probing of retinal…
The rising complexity of photonic applications, ranging from quantum computing to neuromorphic processing, has driven the demand for highly programmable and scalable photonic integrated circuits. While mesh-based architectures built from…
The demonstration of an optical fiber based probe for efficiently exciting the waveguide modes of high-index contrast planar photonic crystal (PC) slabs is presented. Utilizing the dispersion of the PC, fiber taper waveguides formed from…
The incorporation of subarrays in Direct Radiating Arrays for satellite missions is fundamental in reducing the number of Radio Frequency chains, which correspondingly diminishes cost, power consumption, space, and mass. Despite the…
We have developed a photonic filter featuring dual independently tunable passbands. Employing the reconstruction equivalent-chirp technique, we designed linearly chirped sampled Bragg gratings with two equivalent phase shifts positioned at…
The problem addressed in this study is how to design and test compact antenna arrays for portable Mulitple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transceivers. Mutual coupling in an antenna array affects signal correlation and array radiation…
As silicon photonics transitions from research to commercial deployment, packaging solutions that efficiently couple light into highly-compact and functional sub-micron silicon waveguides are imperative but remain challenging. The 220 nm…
We report a comprehensive study on the performance of uniform and non-uniform based subwavelength grating couplers in Silicon-on-Insulator. The two performance metrics, coupling efficiency and bandwidth enhancement and trade-offs is…
Reciprocal spin-orbit coupling (SOC) via geometric phase with flat optics provides a promising platform for shaping and controlling paraxial structured light. Current devices, from the pioneering q-plates to the recent J-plates, provide…
A novel technique is presented for realising programmable silicon photonic circuits. Once the proposed photonic circuit is programmed, its routing is retained without the need for additional power consumption. This technology enables a…
We develop a single-layer waveguide surface grating structure to vertically couple near infrared (NIR) light at ~1.55 um wavelength from a large area (~100 um length scale) Si waveguide on a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) substrates to…
We develop sparse array receive beamformer design methods achieving maximum signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR) for wideband sources and jammers. Both tapped delay line (TDL) filtering and the DFT realizations to wideband…
We have used diffraction gratings to simplify the fabrication, and dramatically increase the atomic collection efficiency, of magneto-optical traps using micro-fabricated optics. The atom number enhancement was mainly due to the increased…
We present a novel platform to construct high-performance nanophotonic devices in low refractive index dielectric films at telecoms wavelengths. The formation of horizontal slots by PECVD deposition of high index amorphous silicon provides…
We have fabricated 4-element Graphene/Silicon on Insulator (SOI) based Schottky barrier photodiode array ()PDA and investigated its optoelectronic device performance. In our device design, monolayer graphene is utilized as common electrode…
Optical phased arrays (OPA) with high integration, fast speed, low power consumption, and high steering resolution are critical components in the emerging photonic integrated circuit (PIC), LiDAR, free space optical communication, 3D…