activity
20242026
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7 papers

physics.optics2026

Silicon Ring Based 64100 GHz Wavelength Division Multiplexing filter

Q. Deng, A. Elshazly, M. Oktay +17

Silicon-based wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters are essential for scaling optical communication capacity in data centers and telecommunications networks.However, exten…

physics.optics2026

Silicon Photonic CWDM Filter with Compact Footprint, Low Loss, Flat-Top Transmission and High Yield

Qingzhong Deng, Alaa Elshazly, Rafal Magdziak +11

A novel silicon photonic CWDM filter design is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The design has achieved flat-top transmission across all dies on a wafer, with a device foo…

physics.optics2025

Broadband and Ultra-Compact Adiabatic Coupler Based on Linearly Tapered Silicon Waveguides

Ahmed Bayoumi, Ahmed Khalil, Pol Van Dorpe +8

2x2 couplers are crucial in many photonics applications but are often wavelength-sensitive. Alternative designs could be large, complex, or lossy. We present a broadband ultra-comp…

physics.optics2025

A high-speed heterogeneous lithium tantalate silicon photonics platform

Margot Niels, Tom Vanackere, Ewoud Vissers +22

The rapid expansion of cloud computing and artificial intelligence has driven the demand for faster optical components in data centres to unprecedented levels. A key advancement in…

physics.optics2025

A scalable quadratic nonlinear silicon photonics platform with printable entangled photon-pair sources

Tom Vandekerckhove, Jasper De Witte, Lisa De Jaeger +14

The integration of second-order optical nonlinearities into scalable photonic platforms remains a key challenge due to their large sensitivity to fabrication variations. Here, we p…

physics.optics2025

Low-Loss Integration of High-Density Polymer Waveguides with Silicon Photonics for Co-Packaged Optics

Jef Van Asch, Jeroen Missinne, Junwen He +12

Co-Packaged Optics applications require scalable and high-yield optical interfacing solutions to silicon photonic chiplets, offering low-loss, broadband, and polarization-independe…