Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zheng Wang, Yan Cai, Haitao Jiang, Ziao Tian, Zengfeng Di
Summary: This article provides a comprehensive review on graphene-based silicon photonic devices and their applications in optical interconnects. Silicon photonics has the ability to integrate multiple core functions of optical interconnects into small-scale chips, offering cost-effective and scalable manufacturing capabilities. Graphene has emerged as a promising solution for traditional silicon photonics due to its exceptional electrical and optical properties, enabling pure phase modulation and ultrafast photodetection.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Anthony Rizzo, Stuart Daudlin, Asher Novick, Aneek James, Vignesh Gopal, Vaishnavi Murthy, Qixiang Cheng, Bok Young Kim, Xingchen Ji, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Matthew van Niekerk, Venkatesh Deenadayalan, Gerald Leake, Michael Fanto, Stefan Preble, Michal Lipson, Alexander Gaeta, Keren Bergman
Summary: Silicon photonics has great potential in improving optical interconnects in data centers and high performance computers, enabling higher transmission rates and lower energy consumption. This study reviews recent progress in silicon photonic interconnects, with a focus on chip-scale Kerr frequency comb sources, and provides a comprehensive overview of scalable silicon photonic systems. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of volume manufacturing for this technology.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2023)
Article
Optics
Ehab Awad
Summary: A novel continuous-wave silicon compatible metamaterial nanolaser was designed and demonstrated, lasing at 1550 nm when pumped at 800 nm. The metamaterial waveguide supports fundamental single-mode propagation, efficient light coupling, and simultaneous forward and backward outputs, with high quantum efficiency and low lasing threshold.
OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Erfan M. Fard, Soha Namnabat, Stephanie Arouh, Robert A. Norwood, Stanley Pau, Nasser Peyghambarian
Summary: A design of an adiabatic silicon nitride taper to polymer waveguide coupler is presented in this study, showing high misalignment tolerance and low coupling loss.
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Laurens Bogaert, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Laurens Breyne, Joris Lambrecht, Haolin Li, Kasper Van Gasse, Jochem Verbist, Michael Vanhoecke, Hannes Ramon, Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Peter De Heyn, Joris Van Campenhout, Peter Ossieur, Piet Demeester, Xin Yin, Johan Bauwelinck, Guy Torfs, Gunther Roelkens
Summary: Silicon photonics is a key-enabling technology that leverages the infrastructure of the microelectronics CMOS industry to achieve high yield, low cost, and potential high volume manufacturing. SiGe electro-absorption modulators (EAM) are considered promising candidates for next-generation data center interconnects and radio-over-fiber applications in next-generation cellular networks.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Review
Optics
Bo Xu, Yuhao Huang, Yuetong Fang, Zhongrui Wang, Shaoliang Yu, Renjing Xu
Summary: The rapid development of neural networks has brought about significant applications in various fields. Among different hardware implementations, silicon photonics stands out due to its CMOS compatibility, accessible integration, mature fabrication techniques, and abundant optical components. Neuromorphic computing based on silicon photonics provides parallel processing, high-speed operations, and low power consumption for further exploration of neural networks. This article focuses on the development of neuromorphic computing based on silicon photonics, discussing its architecture, algorithm theory, prospects, and challenges.
Review
Optics
Guanyu Chen, Yu Yu, Yang Shi, Nanxi Li, Wei Luo, Lin Cao, Aaron J. Danner, Ai-Qun Liu, Xinliang Zhang
Summary: This review introduces the basic metrics and key process technologies for high-speed photodetectors (PDs) on silicon photonics platform, and reviews and discusses various types of high-speed PDs. These detectors continue to set new speed records and open an era of ultrahigh-speed optical interconnect. This review provides readers with insights into recent advances and contributes to further development.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Yizhen Zhu, Tengteng Tang, Suyi Zhao, Dylan Joralmon, Zachary Poit, Bhushan Ahire, Sanjay Keshav, Aaditya Rajendra Raje, Joshua Blair, Zilong Zhang, Xiangjia Li
Summary: Functional optics has become a hot topic due to their wide usage in diverse fields, but the complexity and multi-material distribution of advanced optical devices have hindered their development. However, additive manufacturing has shown its potential to produce multi-material, multi-scale, and multi-functional optical devices.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuyang Wang, Peng Sun, Jared Hulme, M. Ashkan Seyedi, Marco Fiorentino, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Kwang-Ting Cheng
Summary: In this study, a transceiver grouping algorithm is proposed to assemble communication networks from a pool of fabricated transceivers, aiming to optimize both network energy efficiency and yield. Experimental results demonstrate that optimized grouping significantly improves network energy efficiency and yield compared to randomly grouping the transceivers.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Roger B. Tipton, Dianhao Hou, Zhimin Shi, Thomas M. Weller, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla
Summary: The study demonstrates the ability to print photonic interconnects directly on flexible substrates using additive manufacturing technology, leading to the production of flexible photonic devices. The results show that these devices have good propagation performance and fatigue resistance.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
(2021)
Review
Optics
George N. Tzintzarov, Sunil G. Rao, John D. Cressler
Summary: This paper reviews the application of silicon photonics for space applications, highlighting the benefits of size, weight, power, and cost metrics. It discusses the motivation for using silicon photonics in optical communications systems and microwave photonics, as well as the current understanding of radiation effects in silicon photonics. Specific effects on different devices and areas for further study are also addressed.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Siqi Yan, Jeremy Adcock, Yunhong Ding
Summary: This review focuses on the application of graphene in high-performance silicon photonic devices and discusses the future trends and challenges of silicon-graphene hybrid photonic devices.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jeremy C. Adcock, Jueming Bao, Yulin Chi, Xiaojiong Chen, Davide Bacco, Qihuang Gong, Leif K. Oxenlowe, Jianwei Wang, Yunhong Ding
Summary: Quantum technology is poised to revolutionize computing, communications and sensing capabilities, with photons being crucial carriers of quantum information. The system requires thousands of near-transparent components with ultra-low-latency control, and the development of a new paradigm photonic system is needed to meet these requirements.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Optics
Alec M. Hammond, Joel B. Slaby, Michael J. Probst, Stephen E. Ralph
Summary: Density-based topology optimization is utilized to design large-scale, multi-layer grating couplers that comply with commercial foundry fabrication constraints while providing efficient coupling to a single-mode optical fiber without additional optics.
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Zian Xiao, Weixin Liu, Siyu Xu, Jingkai Zhou, Zhihao Ren, Chengkuo Lee
Summary: As an integrated technology, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have great potential in data processing, communication, and sensing applications due to their high speed and low power consumption. Silicon photonics, with its mature CMOS process, is considered a promising solution for PICs. However, there is still a need for further development to enable more powerful chip-scale systems and new functionalities.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2023)
