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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…
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…
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…