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Sequential Monitoring and Control of a Silicon Photonic Coherent Beam Adder and Analyzer
Samuele De Gaetano, Monica Crico, Giorgio Ferrari +4
Joint communication and sensing applications require devices that can analyze multiple electromagnetic waves and process them in real time directly in the analog domain. In optics,…
Data Driven Programming of Photonic Integrated Circuits
Gabriele Cavicchioli, Gabriele Masini, Francesco Maria Sances +2
Programming photonic integrated hardware often reveals as a challenging task because of the presence of non-idealities in the photonic chip. These include fabrication imper- fectio…
Integrated electronic controller for dynamic self-configuration of photonic circuits
Emanuele Sacchi, Francesco Zanetto, Andrés Ivan Martinez +5
Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can implement arbitrary operations and signal processing functionalities directly in the optical domain. Run-time configuration o…
High-precision automated setting of arbitrary magnitude and phase of Mach-Zehnder interferometers for scalable optical computing
Alessandro di Tria, Gabriele Cavicchioli, Pietro Giannoccaro +5
Photonic technologies offer promising solutions to the power consumption, bandwidth constraints and latency limits of electronic hardware used in high-performance computing and art…
Self-Adaptive Integrated Photonic Receiver for Turbulence Compensation in Free Space Optical Links
Andres Ivan Martinez, Gabriele Cavicchioli, Seyedmohammad Seyedinnavadeh +5
In Free Space Optical (FSO) communication systems, atmospheric turbulence distorts the propagating beams, causing a random fading in the received power. This perturbation can be co…
Training of Physical Neural Networks
Ali Momeni, Babak Rahmani, Benjamin Scellier +25
Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that leverage the properties of physical systems to perform computation. While PNNs are so far a niche research…
Scalable Low-latency Optical Phase Sensor Array
Zhanghao Sun, Sunil Pai, Carson Valdez +5
Optical phase measurement is critical for many applications and traditional approaches often suffer from mechanical instability, temporal latency, and computational complexity. In…
Brillouin and Kerr nonlinearities of a low-index silicon oxynitride platform
Kaixuan Ye, Yvan Klaver, Oscar A Jimenez Gordillo +5
Nonlinear optical effects including stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and four-wave mixing (FWM) play an important role in microwave photonics, optical frequency combs, and qua…
Experimental evaluation of digitally-verifiable photonic computing for blockchain and cryptocurrency
Sunil Pai, Taewon Park, Marshall Ball +9
As blockchain technology and cryptocurrency become increasingly mainstream, ever-increasing energy costs required to maintain the computational power running these decentralized pl…
Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in nanophotonic neural networks
Sunil Pai, Zhanghao Sun, Tyler W. Hughes +11
Neural networks are widely deployed models across many scientific disciplines and commercial endeavors ranging from edge computing and sensing to large-scale signal processing in d…
Spatially resolving amplitude and phase of light with a reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit
Johannes Bütow, Jörg S. Eismann, Maziyar Milanizadeh +4
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) play a pivotal role in many applications. Particularly powerful are circuits based on meshes of reconfigurable Mach-Zehnder interferometers as t…
Amorphous-silicon visible-light detector integrated in silicon nitride waveguides
Christian De Vita, Fabio Toso, Natale Giovanni Pruiti +5
Visible light integrated photonics is emerging as a promising technology for the realization of optical devices for applications in sensing, quantum information and communications,…
Multibeam Free Space Optics Receiver Enabled by a Programmable Photonic Mesh
Maziyar Milanizadeh, SeyedMohammad SeyedinNavadeh, Francesco Zanetto +8
Free-space optics (FSO) is an attractive technology to meet the ever-growing demand for wireless bandwidth in next generation networks. To increase the spectral efficiency of FSO l…
Automated manipulation of free space optical beams with integrated silicon photonic meshes
Maziyar Milanizadeh, Fabio Toso, Giorgio Ferrari +4
Free-space optics (FSO) offer promising solutions in wireless systems where many different devices need to communicate and interoperate, exchanging massive amounts of data as in co…
Characterization of photon pairs generated by a silicon ring resonator under electrical self-pumping
Francesco Garrisi, Federico Andrea Sabattoli, Nicola Bergamasco +7
We report on the generation of nonclassical states of light in a silicon ring resonator in a selfpumping scheme. The ring is inserted in a lasing cavity, for which it acts as a fil…
Fundamental limits on the losses of phase and amplitude optical actuators
Simone Zanotto, Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni
Amplitude and phase are the basic properties of every wave phenomena; as long as optical waves are concerned, the ability to act on these variables is at the root of a wealth of sw…
Metasurface reconfiguration through lithium ion intercalation in a transition metal oxide
Simone Zanotto, Alessandra Blancato, Annika Buchheit +4
In the latest years the optical engineer's toolbox has welcomed a new concept, the metasurface. In a metasurface, properly tailored material inclusions are able to reshape the elec…
All-optical mode unscrambling on a silicon photonic chip
Andrea Annoni, Emanuele Guglielmi, Marco Carminati +5
Propagation of light beams through scattering or multimode systems may lead to randomization of the spatial coherence of the light. Although information is not lost, its recovery r…
ContactLess Integrated Photonic Probe for light monitoring in InP-based devices
Daniele Melati, Marco Carminati, Stefano Grillanda +4
The increasing complexity of photonic integrated circuits requires the possibility to monitor the state of the circuit in order to stabilize the working point against environmental…
Non-invasive monitoring and control in silicon photonics by CMOS integrated electronics
Stefano Grillanda, Marco Carminati, Francesco Morichetti +7
As photonics breaks away from today's device level toward large scale of integration and complex systems-on-a-chip, concepts like monitoring, control and stabilization of photonic…
Non-invasive light observer
Francesco Morichetti, Stefano Grillanda, Marco Carminati +5
Photonic technologies lack non-invasive monitoring tools to inspect the light inside optical waveguides. This is one of the main barriers to large scale of integration, even though…