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On-Chip Vectorial Structured Light Manipulation via Inverse Design
Xiaobin Lin, Maoliang Wei, Kunhao Lei +12
On-chip structured light, with potentially infinite complexity, has emerged as a linchpin in the realm of integrated photonics. However, the realization of arbitrarily tailoring a…
"Zero change" platform for monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials in silicon photonics
Maoliang Wei, Kai Xu, Bo Tang +13
Monolithic integration of novel materials for unprecedented device functions without modifying the existing photonic component library is the key to advancing heterogeneous silicon…
Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks
Chuyu Zhong, Kun Liao, Tianxiang Dai +18
Optical neural networks (ONNs) herald a new era in information and communication technologies and have implemented various intelligent applications. In an ONN, the activation funct…
Waveguide-Integrated Mid-Infrared Photodetection using Graphene on a Scalable Chalcogenide Glass Platform
Jordan Goldstein, Hongtao Lin, Skylar Deckoff-Jones +7
The development of compact and fieldable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy devices represents a critical challenge for distributed sensing with applications from gas leak detectio…
Molecular monolayer stabilizer for multilayer 2D materials
Cong Su, Zongyou Yin, Qing-Bo Yan +15
2D van der Waals materials have rich and unique functional properties, but many are susceptible to corrosion under ambient conditions. Here we show that linear alkylamines are high…
Extreme Broadband Transparent Optical Phase Change Materials for High-Performance Nonvolatile Photonics
Yifei Zhang, Jeffrey B. Chou, Junying Li +18
Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring drastic optical property contrast upon solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption i…
Digital Fourier transform spectroscopy: a high-performance, scalable technology for on-chip spectrum analysis
Derek M. Kita, Brando Miranda, David Favela +5
Optical spectrum analysis is the cornerstone of spectroscopic sensing, optical network performance monitoring, and hyperspectral imaging. While conventional high-performance spectr…
Ultra-thin, High-efficiency Mid-Infrared Transmissive Huygens Meta-Optics
Hanyu Zheng, Jun Ding, Li Zhang +12
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) is a strategically important band for numerous applications ranging from night vision to biochemical sensing. Unlike visible or near-infrared optical part…
Chalcogenide Glass-on-Graphene Photonics
Hongtao Lin, Yi Song, Yizhong Huang +16
Two-dimensional (2-D) materials are of tremendous interest to integrated photonics given their singular optical characteristics spanning light emission, modulation, saturable absor…
High-Q mid-infrared chalcogenide glass resonators
Hongtao Lin, Lan Li, Yi Zou +3
In this letter, we fabricated and characterized chalcogenide glass resonators monolithically integrated on mid-infrared transparent CaF2 substrates. The devices feature an intrinsi…
Heterogeneously integrated silicon photonics for the mid-infrared and spectroscopic sensing
Yu Chen, Hongtao Lin, Juejun Hu +1
Besides being the foundational material for microelectronics, in optics, crystalline silicon has long been used for making infrared lenses and mirrors. More recently, silicon has b…
High-Performance, High-Index-Contrast Chalcogenide Glass Photonics on Silicon and Unconventional Non-planar Substrates
Yi Zou, Danning Zhang, Hongtao Lin +11
This paper reports a versatile, roll-to-roll and backend compatible technique for the fabrication of high-index-contrast photonic structures on both silicon and plastic substrates.…
3-D Integrated Flexible Glass Photonics
Lan Li, Hongtao Lin, Shutao Qiao +6
Photonic integration on plastic substrates enables emerging applications ranging from flexible interconnects to conformal sensors on biological tissues. Such devices are traditiona…
Demonstration of mid-infrared waveguide photonic crystal cavities
Hongtao Lin, Lan Li, Fei Deng +5
We have demonstrated what we believe to be the first waveguide photonic crystal cavity operating in the mid-infrared. The devices were fabricated from Ge23Sb7S70 chalcogenide glass…
Breaking the energy-bandwidth limit of electro-optic modulators: theory and a device proposal
Hongtao Lin, Okechukwu Ogbuu, Jifeng Liu +3
In this paper, we quantitatively analyzed the trade-off between energy per bit for switching and modulation bandwidth of classical electro-optic modulators. A formally simple energ…