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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yaoxin Liu, Lars Sogaard Rishoj, Michael Galili, Quentin Saudan, Yunhong Ding, Leif Katsuo Oxenlowe, Toshio Morioka
Summary: We designed and fabricated a silicon photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexer (MUX) chip for simultaneous wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and OAM mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in optical fiber communication systems. Using this chip, we successfully demonstrated simultaneous 3 OAM MDM transmission and OAM MDM/WDM transmission in an 800-m OAM ring-core fiber. The achieved bit error rates (BERs) were below the 7% forward error correction (FEC) limit using 10 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) signals.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Daivid Robert Fowler, Quentin Wilmart, Stephanie Garcia, Segolene Olivier, Bertrand Szelag
Summary: In this article, two strategies for designing a fiber grating coupler for coupling to optical fibers placed on the backside of the chip are presented. An all silicon O-band grating coupler and a hybrid silicon nitride/silicon O-band grating coupler are designed, fabricated, and measured, showing peak coupling efficiencies of -2.8 dB and -3.2 dB respectively.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Keijiro Suzuki, Ryotaro Konoike, Guangwei Cong, Koji Yamada, Shu Namiki, Hitoshi Kawashima, Kazuhiro Ikeda
Summary: This article presents the development of a strictly non-blocking 8 x 8 silicon photonics switch for operation in the O-band, demonstrating low loss and low crosstalk. The switch is based on path-independent insertion-loss topology and fabricated chip exhibits an average fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 16.6 dB over a bandwidth of 70 nm. Nonlinear characteristics of Si devices in the O-band were also investigated, showing that two-photon absorption and four-wave mixing are not significant at low input powers.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Duy Nguyen Thi Hang, Hai Ta Duy, Thuy Tran Thi Thanh, Nguyen Do Hoang Khoi, Cao Dung Truong
Summary: This paper presents a compact multimode optical switch based on numerical simulation methods using silicon Psi-junctions and multimode interference couplers, controlled by thermal-optic phase shifters. The switch demonstrates low insertion loss, low crosstalk, and high extinction ratio within a 40 nm bandwidth range, showing promise for use in photonic large scale integration circuits.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuxing Chen, Caoyuan Wang, Limin Xiao
Summary: An effective approach to fabricating ultrathin lensed photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with long working distances has been demonstrated in this study. The maximum working distance of lensed PCF has been analytically shown and experimentally optimized, achieving a significantly enhanced collimating working distance and ultrawide working bandwidth. The findings will accelerate various applications using such ultrathin lensed PCFs.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Shengtao Yu, Thomas K. Gaylord, Muhannad S. Bakir
Summary: This study utilizes a self-aligning silicon chiplet approach to enable interconnection between arrays of fibers and a silicon-on-insulator substrate. The approach achieves highly scalable surface coupling of optical fibers to gratings through silicon micromachining and 3D printing, providing a potential technology for fiber-to-chip interconnects.
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jian Cui, Yuyang Gao, Shuailuo Huang, Jinyi Yu, Jiaxin Liu, Junchi Jia, Yongqi He, Zhangyuan Chen, Juhao Li
Summary: In this paper, a design method for degenerate-mode-selective couplers (DMSC) with side-polishing processing is proposed, and three kinds of DMSCs for different linearly-polarized (LP) modes (LP11, LP21, and LP31) in a weakly-coupled few-mode fiber (FMF) are designed. A pair of mode multiplexers/demultiplexers (MMUX/MDEMUX) consisting of cascaded mode-selective couplers (MSC) and DMSCs for all the 5 LP modes of the FMF are fabricated with side-polishing processing. The measurement results show that the MMUX and MDEMUX achieve low back-to-back insertion loss (IL) lower than 5.3 dB for all the 5 modes. Stable digital-signal-processing (DSP)-free 5-mode intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) mode division multiplexing (MDM) transmission over a 10-km FMF is successfully demonstrated.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Optics
Thi Thuy Duong Dinh, Xavier Le Roux, Jianhao Zhang, Miguel Montesinos-Ballester, Christian Lafforgue, Daniel Benedikovic, Pavel Cheben, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Laurent Vivien, Carlos Alonso-Ramos
Summary: Flexible control of modal confinement in silicon photonic waveguides is achieved using a new strategy that utilizes metamaterial engineering of the waveguide core and cladding. The proposed dual-material geometry allows independent control of the index contrast in the vertical and horizontal directions. Experimental results show that the dual-metamaterial waveguides exhibit similar measured quality factors and better calculated bulk sensitivity compared to strip waveguides.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yun Liu, Bing Qi, Drew E. Winder
Summary: The all-fiber optical demodulator developed uses a Michelson interferometer to accurately extract measurand information from phase-shifted signals. It is highly stable and has been successfully applied to measure high-frequency vibrations and strains with fiber-optic sensors.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Kamil Gradkowski, David Stegall, David Mackey, Alan Naughton, Terry Smith, Peter O'Brien
Summary: We present the optical and mechanical designs of a pluggable package for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Using off-the-shelf micro-optical components, we demonstrate a low-loss (about 2 dB) expanded-beam connection between an edge-coupled SiN-based PIC and a standard optical fiber. The experiment shows high reproducibility of coupling efficiency over up to 80 mating/de-mating cycles.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Lirong Cheng, Simei Mao, Xin Tu, H. Y. Fu
Summary: A novel dual-wavelength-band grating coupler was proposed and designed on a 220-nm-thick silicon-on-insulator, capable of coupling two wavelength bands simultaneously under surface-normal fiber placement. The device utilizes a dual-etch grating design for increased directionality and unique diffraction angle dispersion characteristics for the targeted wavelengths. The use of high numerical aperture fiber reduces angular sensitivity and increases coupling efficiency for the proposed dual-wavelength-band operation scheme.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuxin Ding, Jianshe Li, Shuguang Li, Yu Qin, Zelin Zhang, Xiaokai Wang, Ying Guo, Xiaojian Meng, Huijing Du
Summary: We propose an elliptical-core mode selective photonic lantern (EC-MSPL) that is suitable for mode division multiplexing (MDM) systems without multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability. By optimizing the taper related parameters in a two-stage approach, we obtain a small package taper region that satisfies the adiabatic condition, enabling a shorter taper length without affecting the performance of the photonic lantern (PL). Simulations show that both step-index and graded-index EC-MSPLs can achieve low-loss mode conversion and crosstalk below -15.6 dB at a wavelength of 1550 nm, with coupling efficiencies above 85% and 71% for the two PL modes in the S+C+L bands.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ting Li, Fengping Yan, Wenguo Han, Ting Feng, Ying Guo, Qi Qin, Zhuoya Bai, Dan Cheng, Dandan Yang
Summary: A multi-wavelength thulium-doped fiber laser with a photonic crystal fiber Sagnac loop is experimentally demonstrated. By utilizing nonlinear polarization rotation and adjusting polarization controllers, stable wavelength outputs are achieved at room temperature.
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuxuan Chen, Simon Levasseur, Leslie A. Rusch, Wei Shi
Summary: In this research, an optical phased array (OPA) with two-dimensional antennas is used to generate circularly polarized OAM beams. The OAM multiplexer supports up to 46 simultaneous spatial modes and incorporates intensity tuning capability to improve the OAM quality and reduce crosstalk.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jie Liu, Zhiwen Zheng, Bin Chen, Zong Wang, Chijun Li, Kaixuan Chen, Liu Liu
Summary: The study presents and demonstrates a high-performance grating coupler array for coupling a silicon photonic chip to a multi-core fiber vertically, with low coupling loss, low back reflection, low channel non-uniformity, and effective crosstalk. These improved results are attributed to the design of embedding the diffractive grating in a one-port cavity formed by reflecting Bragg gratings and a metal mirror.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ken Giewont, Karen Nummy, Frederick A. Anderson, Javier Ayala, Tycoon Barwicz, Yusheng Bian, Kevin K. Dezfulian, Douglas M. Gill, Thomas Houghton, Shuren Hu, Bo Peng, Michal Rakowski, Stewart Rauch, Jessie C. Rosenberg, Ash Sahin, Ian Stobert, Andy Stricker
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2019)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Alexander Jones, Andrew Rush, Cory Merkel, Eric Herrmann, Ajey P. Jacob, Clare Thiem, Rashmi Jha
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Francis O. Afzal, Yusheng Bian, Bo Peng, Shuren Hu, Abdelsalam Aboketaf, Kevin K. Dezfulian, Karen Nummy, Andy Stricker, Crystal Hedges, Zoey Sowinski, Michal Rakowski, Won Suk Lee, Rod Augur, Dave Riggs, Ken Giewont, Sharon M. Weiss
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
(2020)
Article
Optics
Sami Halimi, Zhongyuan Fu, Francis O. Afzal, Joshua A. Allen, Shuren Hu, Sharon M. Weiss
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS
(2020)
Article
Optics
Sujith Chandran, Marcus Dahlem, Yusheng Bian, Paulo Moreira, Ajey P. Jacob, Michal Rakowski, Andy Stricker, Karen Nummy, Colleen Meagher, Bo Peng, Abu Thomas, Shuren Hu, Jan Petykiewicz, Zoey Sowinski, Won Suk Lee, Rod Augur, Dave Riggs, Ted Letavic, Anthony Yu, Ken Giewont, John Pellerin, Jaime Viegas
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Humberto Inzunza Velarde, Jheel Nagaria, Zihan Yin, Ajey Jacob, Akhilesh Jaiswal
Summary: The quest for highly efficient cognitive computing has sparked extensive research interest in neuromorphic computing, which mimics biological neurons and synapses using solid-state devices. Nonvolatile memory, particularly magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices, are of interest for mimicking neuro-synaptic behavior. This study focuses on implementing spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) behavior in MTJ devices by utilizing time-dependent heat dynamics and response to temperature changes. Simulation results show that STDP can be imitated in stochastic MTJs through simple voltage waveforms.
IEEE MAGNETICS LETTERS
(2021)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yusheng Bian, Colleen Meagher, Karen Nummy, Sujith Chandran, Won Suk Lee, Abdelsalam Aboketaf, Danhao Ma, Ryan Sporer, Michal Rakowski, Nuh Yuksek, Monica Esopi, Bo Peng, Yangyang Liu, Abu Thomas, Tymon Barwicz, Takako Hirokawa, Javier Ayala, Asli Sahin, Andy Stricker, Subramanian Krishnamurthy, Shuren Hu, Zoey Sowinski, Kate McLean, Louis Medina, Kevin Dezfulian, Michelle Zhang, Mona Nafari, Zhuoqiang Jia, Kaushikee Mishra, Asif Chowdhury, Francis Afzal, Brendan Harris, Salman Mosleh, Bruna Paredes, Marcus Dahlem, Jaime Viegas, Rod Augur, Dave Riggs, Luke Lee, Wenhe Lin, Ajey Jacob, Fen Jamin, Mai Randall, Hemanth Parsa, Vikas Gupta, Anthony Yu, Ken Giewont, Ted Letavic, John Pellerin
Summary: A comprehensive set of SiN building blocks, including low-loss SiN waveguides, Si-SiN transitions, efficient polarization splitters/rotators, and compact ring WDM filters, was demonstrated on a monolithic SiPh platform at O-band.
2021 OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION (OFC)
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ayat Taha, Sujith Chandran, Jaime Viegas, Yusheng Bian, Michal Rakowski, Rod Augur, Ajey Jacob, Marcus Dahlem
Summary: This study demonstrates a compact four-channel wavelength division multiplexer using an arrayed waveguide grating based on multimode interference couplers, with a thin device layer design. A semi-numerical approach was used for device design and simulation, with optical measurements consistent with simulation results. The device showed channel spacing of 97 GHz, 3-dB bandwidth of 87 GHz, and crosstalk of 9.6 dB for the designed wavelength of operation near 1310 nm.
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
(2021)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Bo Peng, Tymon Barwicz, Asli Sahin, Thomas Houghton, Brittany Hedrick, Yusheng Bian, Michal Rakowski, Shuren Hu, Javier Ayala, Colleen Meagher, Zoey Sowinski, Karen Nummy, Andy Stricker, Jorge Lubguban, Hui Chen, Benjamin Fasano, Ian Melville, Zhuo-jie Wu, Jae Kyu Cho, Ajey Jacob, Dave Riggs, Daniel Berger, Ted Letavic, Anthony Yu, John Pellerin, Ken Giewont
2020 OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION (OFC)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Michal Rakowski, Colleen Meagher, Karen Nummy, Abdelsalam Aboketaf, Javier Ayala, Yusheng Bian, Brendan Harris, Kate Mclean, Kevin McStay, Asli Sahin, Louis Medina, Bo Peng, Zoey Sowinski, Andy Stricker, Thomas Houghton, Crystal Hedges, Ken Giewont, Ajey Jacob, Ted Letavic, Dave Riggs, Anthony Yu, John Pellerin
2020 OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION (OFC)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yusheng Bian, Ajey Jacob, Won Suk Lee, Bo Peng, Michal Rakowski, Abdelsalam Aboketaf, Rod Augur
2020 IEEE 70TH ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (ECTC 2020)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sami I. Halimi, Zhongyuan Fu, Francis O. Afzal, Joshua A. Allen, Shuren Hu, Sharon M. Weiss
2019 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO)
(2019)