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Photonics in Supercomputing: The Road to Exascale

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMA1
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• Kash, Jeffrey
• Optical interconnects in present and future supercomputers are reviewed, emphasizing Exaflop performance circa 2020, which is 1000X today’s Petaflop computers. Power, density and cost...

An 8x8 Monolithic Tunable Optical Router (MOTOR) Chip in InP

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMB1
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• Nicholes, Steven C; Mašanovic, Milan L; Lively, Erica; Coldren, Larry A; Blumenthal, Daniel J
• We demonstrate 10 Gbps error free operation through multiple ports of an InP monolithic tunable optical router consisting of eight input wavelength converters and an 8x8 passive...

Spiral Cavity Si Wire Resonators as Label-Free Biosensors

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMB2
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• Xu, Dan-Xia; Densmore, A; Schmid, J H; Ma, R; Vachon, M; Janz, S; McKinnon, R; Lapointe, J; Delâge, A; Post, E; Cheben, P
• We demonstrate densely folded spiral cavity resonator with Q > 20,000 and an area of 30 ?m × 30 ?m. We show that extended cavity length increases Q and improves the fabrication...

Label-Free Biosensing Utilizing Ultrasmall Photonic Crystal Nanolaser

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMB3
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• Kita, S; Nishijima, Y; Misawa, H; Baba, T
• We demonstrate label-free biosensing using GaInAsP photonic crystal nanolaser with a nanoscale modal volume. We performed the real-time observation of specific binding of BSA protein...

Analysis of a Plasmonic Microcavity Using the Frequency-Dependent LOD-FDTD Method

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMB4
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• Shibayama, Jun; Ando, Ryoji; Nomura, Akifumi; Yamauchi, Junji; Nakano, Hisamatsu
• A simple frequency-dependent FDTD is developed with a trapezoidal recursive convolution technique and is applied to the analysis of plasmonic microcavities. Tunable properties of the...

High Speed Modulation of Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Lasers

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC1
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• Dai, Daoxin; Fang, Alex; Bowers, John
• High speed modulation results and analysis of hybrid silicon evanescent lasers is described. It should be possible to achieve a 3dB-bandwidth over 50 GHz and a data rate of 50 Gbit/s.

The Use of Deep-Level Dopants in Silicon-on-Insulator Optical Waveguide Modulators

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC2
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• Logan, Dylan F; Jessop, Paul E; Knights, Andrew P; Gwilliam, Russell
• The dependence of silicon’s absorption coefficient at 1.55 µm on the charge state of deep levels is modeled and measured experimentally. Improved designs for p-i-n rib waveguide...

Enhancing Thermal Reconfiguration Speed for Silicon Photonics Applications

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC3
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• Atabaki, Amir H; Eftekhar, Ali A; Yegnanarayanan, Siva; Adibi, Ali
• The reconfiguration speed of silicon photonic devices is enhanced by optimizing thin-film microheaters. We show theoretically and experimentally that narrower heaters, thinner buried...

Hybrid-Integrated Tunable Laser Using Polymer Microring-Resonator-Based Add-Drop Filter and Reflective SOA

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC4
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• Lee, Ho; Kim, Gunwoo; Kim, Suhyun; Chung, Youngchul
• We proposed a novel tunable laser hybrid-integrated with a polymer double-ring-resonator add-drop filter reflector. This tunable laser exhibited SMSR of 26dB, FWHM of 0.03nm, and...

Determination of Wafer and Process Induced Resonant Frequency Variation in Silicon Microdisk-Resonators

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC5
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• Zortman, William A; Watts, Michael R; Trotter, Douglas C
• By comparing the frequency deviations of the TE and TM modes of identically designed silicon microdisk-resonators across a wafer, we demonstrate that layer thickness non-uniformity is...

Active Ge Based Devices for Silicon Photonics

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMC6
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• Michel, Jurgen; Liu, Jifeng; Sun, Xiaochen; Beals, Mark; Kimerling, Lionel C
• Some of the crucial building blocks for Si photonics are high performance photodetectors, modulators, and efficient light sources. High quality Ge epitaxial films on Si have opened new...

Multimode Waveguide-Cavity Integrated Optics for Sensors Based on Fringe Visibility Detection

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD1
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• Ruege, Alexander C; Reano, Ronald M
• We demonstrate a sensor platform based on fringe visibility detection of the interaction of a two-mode waveguide coupled to a ring cavity. Glucose solution yields a fringe visibility...

Broadband Integrated Spectrometers in Silicon-Nitride for Spectral Analysis in Sensing Applications

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD2
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• Momeni, Babak; Shah Hosseini, Ehsan; Adibi, Ali
• Silicon-nitride (SiN) spectrometers are proposed for efficient spectral analysis in integrated sensing systems. Planar SiN spectrometers are demonstrated in the visible wavelength...

Recent Progress on Planar Lightwave Circuits for High Bit-Rate Transmission

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD3
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• Hibino, Yoshinori
• Planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology has been contributing greatly to the construction of high bit-rate and long distance optical transmission systems. This paper reviews recent...

Recent Progress in Planar Waveguide Spectrometers

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD4
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• Cheben, Pavel; Schmid, J H; Florjanczyk, M; Bock, P J; Xu, D - X; Janz, S; Delâge, A; Lapointe, J; Lamontagne, B; Post, E; Densmore, A; Albert, J; Hall, T J; Solheim, B; Scott, A
• We introduce several types of new waveguide spectrometers, namely a high-resolution 50-channel AWG spectrometer, a 40-channel broadband AWG spectrometer, a Si-wire sidewall grating...

Design of Ultra-Small Polarization Splitter Based on a Resonant Coupling between Silicon Wire and Slot Waveguides

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD5
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• Komatsu, Masa-aki; Saitoh, Kunimasa; Kakihara, Kuniaki; Koshiba, Masanori
• We propose an ultra-small polarization splitter based on a resonant tunneling phenomenon. Numerical simulations show that a 16-?m-long polarization splitter with extinction ratio...

Compact Add/Drop Filters Using Etched Beam Splitter and Total Internal Reflection Mirrors

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IMD6
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• Kim, Byungchae; Chang, Yu-Chia; Dagli, Nadir
• We present compact optical add-drop filters based on etched beam splitters and total internal reflection mirrors in weakly guiding GaAs/Al^0.9Ga^0.1As waveguides....

Towards an Integrated Narrowband Source for Quantum Information: Photon Pair Generation in a Silicon Racetrack Resonator

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IME1
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• Clemmen, Stéphane; Phan Huy, Kien; Bogaerts, Wim; Baets, Roel G; Emplit, Philippe; Massar, Serge
• We present evidences of time correlated photon pairs generated by the four-wave mixing process in a silicon racetrack cavity. A coincidence measurement and an emission spectrum are...

Interference of Photons from a Weak Laser and a Quantum Dot

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IME2
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• Bennett, Anthony J; Patel, Raj B; Nicoll, Christine A; Ritchie, David A; Shields, Andrew J
• We have measured correlations between photons emitted by a weak laser and a single quantum dot; sources with different statistics. A reduction at time zero is observed indicating...

Nanocolumn Light Emitters from Ultraviolet to Red and InGaN/GaN Nanocolumn Arrays

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2009 paper: IME3
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• Kishino, Katsumi; Kikuchi, Akihiko; Sekiguchi, Hiroto; Ishizawa, Shunsuke
• InGaN-based nanocolumn LEDs from ultraviolet to red were fabricated through self-assembly of nanocolumns by rf-MBE. Uniform arrays of InGaN/GaN nanocolumns were grown demonstrating the...