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Heterogeneously Integrated Passively Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Laser on Silicon
Introduction The ever-increasing demand for high-performance computing and high-speed communication systems has driven significant...

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Nov 5, 20243 min read


Scientific Report|Ultra-compact and Efficient Photonic Waveguide Bends Designed Using Topology Optimization
Introduction Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have seen tremendous growth over the past decades, with advancements in devices and...

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Nov 4, 20249 min read


PAM4 Signal Regeneration using Silicon Photonics Optical Neural Networks
Introduction Optical communication systems are increasingly adopting higher-order modulation formats like 4-level pulse amplitude...

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Nov 1, 20242 min read


Silicon Photonics in Pluggable Optics
Introduction The insatiable demand for network bandwidth driven by the explosion of video, cloud services, gaming, and connected devices...

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Oct 28, 20245 min read


Silicon Photonics MDM Optical Power Divider with NOMA for Flexible Data Rate Allocation
Introduction Silicon photonics (SiPh) integrated circuits have emerged as a promising technology for optical communication systems and...

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Oct 25, 20243 min read


Passively Aligned Glass Micro-Optic Bridge for Expanded-Beam Vertical Coupling and Pluggable Silicon Photonics
Introduction As the demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning grows, the performance of the underlying compute hardware is...

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Oct 24, 20245 min read


OFDR Analysis of Silicon Wavelength (De)Multiplexer Using Cascaded MZIs and Apodized Waveguide Gratings
Introduction Wavelength (de)multiplexers are crucial components in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical communication systems,...

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Oct 22, 20243 min read


Co-Packaging Interoperability: Enabling Next-Generation Data Center Interconnects
Introduction The rapid growth of cloud computing and data-intensive applications has driven the need for ever-increasing bandwidth and...

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Oct 15, 20246 min read


Tutorial: The Emergence of Co-Packaged Optics
Introduction The ever-increasing data demands of modern computing applications are pushing the limitations of traditional electrical...

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Oct 14, 20247 min read


III-V-on-Si Membrane Distributed Reflector Lasers with Intermixed MQW DBRs
Introduction In recent years, silicon photonics has gained significant traction, with many foundries supporting Si photonics options and...

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Oct 4, 20243 min read


Co-Packaged Optics: Enabling Hyperscale Networking and High-Performance Computing
Introduction The rapid growth of data-intensive applications, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML),...

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Sep 30, 20247 min read


The Challenges Of Working With Photonics – Meeting Note
Attendees: James Pond, Fellow at Ansys Gilles Lamant, Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Mitch Heins, Business Development Manager for...

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Sep 26, 20243 min read


Achieving Ultra-Broad Bandwidth with a Subwavelength-Assisted Power Splitter
Introduction On-chip power splitters are crucial components in silicon photonic integrated circuits, enabling a wide range of...

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Sep 24, 20243 min read


High Efficiency Polarization-Diversity Two-dimensional Waveguide Grating Coupler for Perfectly Vertical Coupling
Introduction In polarization division multiplexing (PDM) communications, two orthogonal polarizations are used to double the transmission...

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Sep 13, 20243 min read


Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Tutorial and Summary
Introduction As data demands continue to skyrocket with the growth of AI, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), the...

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Sep 12, 20244 min read


Optimizing Broadband Silicon Waveguide Crossings with Particle Swarm Optimization
Introduction Silicon photonics integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a promising technology for applications such as optical...

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Sep 6, 20243 min read


Miniaturized Optical Power Splitter with Arbitrary Output Modes Using Inverse Design and Active Phase Shifters
Introduction The ever-increasing demand for high-speed communication networks has driven the rapid development of silicon photonics,...

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Aug 29, 20243 min read


Monolithic Integration of III-V Epitaxial Structures on Silicon Photonics
Introduction The insatiable demand for higher data transmission rates in applications like autonomous driving, smart farming, and...

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Aug 20, 20244 min read


Realizing Efficient Acousto-Optic Modulation on a Commercial Silicon Photonics Platform
Introduction Acousto-optic modulators (AOMs) are crucial components that enable the transduction of information between the acoustic and...

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Aug 19, 20245 min read


Photonic Inc.: The Path to Scalable Networked Quantum Computers
Introduction Quantum computers have the potential to solve currently intractable problems across fields like chemistry, materials...

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Aug 16, 20243 min read
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