{"title":"Destabilization of Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Tilted Optical Feedback","authors":"Xingguang Wang, Binbin Zhao, Yu Deng, Cheng Wang","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252389","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum Cascade lasers are known to be very robust against optical feedback. However, this work shows that tilted optical feedback can destabilize a quantum cascade laser, which produces nonlinear dynamics including periodic oscillations, quasi-periodic oscillations, low-frequency fluctuations, and square waves.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115312342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mach-Zehnder Modulator Quadrature Point Biasing Circuit Immune to Laser Power Fluctuations","authors":"A. Atef, S. Shekhar","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252232","url":null,"abstract":"We present a low power, reference-less digital CMOS control loop for Mach-Zehnder Modulator quadrature biasing, which is insusceptible to laser power fluctuation. The design has been simulated in a 65 nm CMOS process, and a Verilog-A code was developed to model the SOI photonic circuit.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123137538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Khan, M. Chalony, E. Ghillino, M. U. Masood, J. Patel, D. Richards, P. Mena, P. Bardella, A. Carena, V. Curri
{"title":"Effectiveness of Machine Learning in Assessing QoT Impairments of Photonics Integrated Circuits to Reduce System Margin","authors":"I. Khan, M. Chalony, E. Ghillino, M. U. Masood, J. Patel, D. Richards, P. Mena, P. Bardella, A. Carena, V. Curri","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252247","url":null,"abstract":"We propose machine learning technique for assessment of QoT impairments of integrated circuits. We consider margin reduction problem applied to a switching component. Overall results and data sets for machine-learning training are obtained by leveraging the integrated software environment of the Synopsys Photonic Design Suite.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116927416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Compact Model for Datacom VCSEL Towards 25Gbaud and Beyond","authors":"Yaohui Chen, L. Gantz","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252364","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new semi-empirical compact model for Datacom VCSEL based on measurement-data-driven analysis. The demonstrated modeling results show a great potential to impact VCSEL-based optical transceiver designs towards 25Gbaud and beyond.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124971802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of SiO2 Cladding Voids in SiPh Building Blocks","authors":"Hatef Shiran, Hassan Rahbardar Mojaver, Jocelyn Bachman, Cong Jin, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252413","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of buried air gaps (voids) in SiO2 cladding in common silicon photonics building blocks is investigated through simulation. The void cross-sectional areas in devices fabricated through a commercial electron beam lithography process are evaluated and found to be less than 500 nm2.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125866343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra High Speed Silicon and Polymer Hybrid Modulator 100 Gbaud Transmission","authors":"S. Yokoyama, G. Lu, F. Qiu, H. Sato","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252333","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a low voltage driving 100Gbaud transmitter using hybrid silicon modulator with efficient EO polymer. It reaches BER below HD-FEC threshold just with a drive voltage of 1.9 Vpp. It has also shown a good thermal operation at temperature up to 110°C.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123546132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Riccardi, C. Antonelli, Daniel E. Jones, M. Brodsky
{"title":"Reproducing the most general quantum channel in the lab: is it possible?","authors":"G. Riccardi, C. Antonelli, Daniel E. Jones, M. Brodsky","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252533","url":null,"abstract":"We model the presence of the most general combination of decoherence and mode filtering elements in a quantum channel. We assess the accuracy of using conventional fiber-optic emulators of polarization-mode dispersion and polarization-dependent loss in reproducing the general channel in the laboratory.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125317156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microbubble-Assisted Concentration and Ultrasensitive Detection of Biomolecules Using Plasmonic Chiral Metamaterials","authors":"Yaoran Liu, Zilong Wu, Yuebing Zheng","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252520","url":null,"abstract":"We achieve the ultrasensitive chiral detection of metabolites at picomolar level. The ultra-high sensitivity is enabled by microbubble-assisted accumulation of chiral molecules at the electromagnetic hot-spots of plasmonic chiral metamaterials, which could potentially provide first-line screening to identify diabetes case.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114894685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Onoriode N. Ogidi-Ekoko, Wen Liang, Haotian Xue, N. Tansu
{"title":"GaN Subwavelength Gratings by Machine Learning Design","authors":"Onoriode N. Ogidi-Ekoko, Wen Liang, Haotian Xue, N. Tansu","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252349","url":null,"abstract":"We present the machine learning based design of a polynomial-shaped GaN subwavelength grating for maximum stopband reflectivity using heuristic algorithms. We show significant enhancements in the stopband width (SBW) over that of an optimized GaN rectangular grating design with similar layering.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115172957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Pizzone, S. Srinivasan, P. Verheyen, G. Lepage, S. Balakrishnan, J. Van Campenhout
{"title":"Analysis of dark current in Ge-on-Si photodiodes at cryogenic temperatures","authors":"Andrea Pizzone, S. Srinivasan, P. Verheyen, G. Lepage, S. Balakrishnan, J. Van Campenhout","doi":"10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC47351.2020.9252362","url":null,"abstract":"The dark current behavior of three different Ge waveguide photodiode designs integrated in a silicon photonics platform is investigated from 34 to 334 K. The activation energy is extracted to understand the relative contribution of Shockley-Read-Hall and trap-assisted tunneling at different temperatures and voltage biases.","PeriodicalId":435747,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"286 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116188377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}