Multifunctional mixed analog/digital signal processor based on integrated photonics

Photonic signal processing offers a versatile and promising toolkit for contemporary scenarios ranging from digital optical communication to analog microwave operation.Compared to its electronic counterpart,it eliminates inherent bandwidth limitations and meanwhile exhibits the potential to provide unparalleled scalability and flexibility,particularly through integrated photonics.However,by far the on-chip solutions for optical signal processing are often tailored to specific tasks,which lacks versatility across diverse applications.Here,we propose a streamlined chip-level signal processing architecture that integrates different active and passive building blocks in silicon-on-insulator(SOI)platform with a compact and efficient manner.Comprehensive and in-depth analyses for the architecture are conducted at levels of device,system,and application.Accompanied by appropriate configuring schemes,the photonic circuitry supports loading and processing both analog and digital signals simultaneously.Three distinct tasks are facilitated with one single chip across several mainstream fields,spanning optical computing,microwave photonics,and optical communications.Notably,it has demonstrated competitive performance in functions like image processing,spectrum filtering,and electro-optical bandwidth equalization.Boasting high universality and a compact form factor,the proposed architecture is poised to be instrumental for next-generation functional fusion systems.

Progress and realization platforms of dynamic topological photonics

Dynamic topological photonics is a novel research field, combining the time-domain optics and topological physics.In this review, the recent progress and realization platforms of dynamic topological photonics have been well introduced.The definition, measurement methods and the evolution process of the dynamic topological photonics are demonstrated to better understand the physical diagram. This review is meant to bring the readers a different perspective on topological photonics, grasp the advanced progress of dynamic topology, and inspire ideas about future prospects.

Preface–Introduction to the Special Issue for Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics

The Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics 2023 was held online twice on 18–21 September and 25–26 September 2023.The bilateral workshop brought together both Russian and Chinese scientists,engineers,and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science,photonics,and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine.During the workshops,two plenary lectures and twenty invited presentations were presented.This special issue selects some papers from both Russian and Chinese sides,consisting of one review and seven original research articles.

Recent advances in meniscus-on-demand three-dimensional micro-and nano-printing for electronics and photonics

The continual demand for modern optoelectronics with a high integration degree and customized functions has increased requirements for nanofabrication methods with high resolution,freeform,and mask-free.Meniscus-on-demand three-dimensional(3D)printing is a high-resolution additive manufacturing technique that exploits the ink meniscus formed on a printer nozzle and is suitable for the fabrication of micro/nanoscale 3D architectures.This method can be used for solution-processed 3D patterning of materials at a resolution of up to100 nm,which provides an excellent platform for fundamental scientific studies and various practical applications.This review presents recent advances in meniscus-on-demand 3D printing,together with historical perspectives and theoretical background on meniscus formation and stability.Moreover,this review highlights the capabilities of meniscus-on-demand 3D printing in terms of printable materials and potential areas of application,such as electronics and photonics.

A mini review and hypothesis for coronavirus detection using photonics: surface enhanced Raman scattering and fluorescence resonance energy transfer

COVID-19 has devastated numerous nations around the world and has overburdened numerous healthcare systems,which has also caused the loss of livelihoods due to prolonged shutdowns and further led to a cascading effect on the global economy.COVID-19 infections have an incubation period of 2–7 days,but 40 to 45%of cases are asymptomatic or show mild to moderate respiratory symptoms after the period due to subclinical lung abnormalities,making it more likely to spread the pandemic disease.To restrict the spread of the virus,on-site diagnosis methods that are quicker,more precise,and easily accessible are required.Rapid Antigen Detection Tests and Polymerase Chain Reaction tests are currently the primary methods used to determine the presence of COVID-19 viruses.These tests are typically time-consuming,not accurate,and,more importantly,not available to everyone.Hence,in this review and hypothesis,we proposed equipment that employs the properties of photonics to improve the detection of COVID-19 viruses by taking the advantage of typical binding of coronavirus with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2(ACE2)receptors.This hypothetical model would combine Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering(SERS)and Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer(FRET)to provide great flexibility,high sensitivities,and enhanced accessibility.

A review:Photonics devices,architectures,and algorithms for optical neural computing

The explosive growth of data and information has motivated various emerging non-von Neumann computational approaches in the More-than-Moore era.Photonics neuromorphic computing has attracted lots of attention due to the fascinating advantages such as high speed,wide bandwidth,and massive parallelism.Here,we offer a review on the optical neural computing in our research groups at the device and system levels.The photonics neuron and photonics synapse plasticity are presented.In addition,we introduce several optical neural computing architectures and algorithms including photonic spiking neural network,photonic convolutional neural network,photonic matrix computation,photonic reservoir computing,and photonic reinforcement learning.Finally,we summarize the major challenges faced by photonic neuromorphic computing,and propose promising solutions and perspectives.

Silicon photonics for telecom and data‐com applications

In recent decades,silicon photonics has attracted much attention in telecom and data-com areas.Constituted of high refractive-index contrast waveguides on silicon-on-insulator(SOI),a variety of integrated photonic passive and active devices have been implemented supported by excellent optical properties of silicon in the mid-infrared spectrum.The main advantage of the silicon photonics is the ability to use complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS)process-compatible fabrication technologies,resulting in high-volume production at low cost.On the other hand,explosively growing traffic in the telecom,data center and high-performance computer demands the data flow to have high speed,wide bandwidth,low cost,and high energy-efficiency,as well as the photonics and electronics to be integrated for ultra-fast data transfer in networks.In practical applications,silicon photonics started with optical interconnect transceivers in the data-com first,and has been now extended to innovative applications such as multi-port optical switches in the telecom network node and integrated optical phased arrays(OPAs)in light detection and ranging(LiDAR).This paper overviews the progresses of silicon photonics from four points reflecting the recent advances mentioned above.CMOS-based silicon photonic platform technologies,applications to optical transceiver in the data-com network,applications to multi-port optical switches in the telecom network and applications to OPA in LiDAR system.

Microwave Photonics for Modern Radar Systems

The emerging new concepts and technologies based on microwave photonics have led to an ever-increasing interest in developing innovative radar systems with a net gain in functionality,bandwidth /resolution,size,mass,complexity and cost when compared with the traditional implementations. This paper describes the techniques developed in the last few years in microwave photonics that might revolutionize the way to design multifunction radar systems,with an emphasis on the recent advances in optoelectronic oscillators( OEOs),arbitrary waveform generation,photonic mixing,phase coding,filtering,beamforming,analog-to-digital conversion,and stable radio-frequency signal transfer. Challenges in implementation of these components and subsystems for meeting the technique requirements of the multifunction radar applications are discussed.

Avalanche photodiodes on silicon photonics

Silicon photonics technology has drawn significant interest due to its potential for compact and high-performance photonic integrated circuits.The Ge-or III-V material-based avalanche photodiodes integrated on silicon photonics provide ideal high sensitivity optical receivers for telecommunication wavelengths.Herein,the last advances of monolithic and hetero-geneous avalanche photodiodes on silicon are reviewed,including different device structures and semiconductor systems.

Photoic crystal nanobeam cavity devices for on-chip integrated silicon photonics

Integrated circuit(IC)industry has fully considered the fact that the Moore’s Law is slowing down or ending.Alternative solutions are highly and urgently desired to break the physical size limits in the More-than-Moore era.Integrated silicon photonics technology exhibits distinguished potential to achieve faster operation speed,less power dissipation,and lower cost in IC industry,because their COMS compatibility,fast response,and high monolithic integration capability.Particularly,compared with other on-chip resonators(e.g.microrings,2D photonic crystal cavities)silicon-on-insulator(SOI)-based photonic crystal nanobeam cavity(PCNC)has emerged as a promising platform for on-chip integration,due to their attractive properties of ultra-high Q/V,ultra-compact footprints and convenient integration with silicon bus-waveguides.In this paper,we present a comprehensive review on recent progress of on-chip PCNC devices for lasing,modulation,switching/filting and label-free sensing,etc.

基于nature photonics期刊的技术关键词研究

Nature photonics是Nature旗下子刊,是光学类顶级期刊,该文对该刊近10年(2007—2015)的发文关键词进行了技术分析。基于分析,得出Light是该刊出现次数最多的关键词,其次是Generation、Spectroscopy、Laser这些关键词在近十年均呈现整体扩展的趋势;关键词Wave-guides呈现明显的缩减趋势。在美国和德国科技强国,关键词Light、Generation、Spectroscopy、laser出现的比较活跃。

8th Applied Optics and Photonics China

7-9 July 2019,Beijing China China National Convention Center会议官网:https://www.csoe.org.cn/meeting/AOPC2019/主办方:中国光学工程学会(CSOE)、SPIE名誉主席:金国藩(清华大学)、庄松林(上海理工大学)、Toyohiko Yatagai (Utsunomiya University,Japan)大会主席:张广军(东南大学)、Byoungho Lee (Seoul National University,Korea)、John Greivenkamp(The University of Arizona, USA)技术分会:Confl:Advanced Laser Materials and Laser Technology.

8th Applied Optics and Photonics China

7-9 July 2019, Beijing China China National Convention Center会议官网:https://www.csoe.org.cn/meeting/AOPC2019/主办方:中国光学工程学会(CSOE)、SPIE名誉主席:金国藩(清华大学)、庄松林(上海理工大学)、Toyohiko Yatagai (Utsunomiya University,Japan).

Photonics immunotherapy-A novel strategy for cancer treatment

Photonics immunotherapy is a novel cancer treatment strategy that combines local phototherapy and immunotherapy.Phototherapy is a noninvasive or minimally invasive therapeutic strategy for local treatment of cancer,which can destroy tumor cells and release tumor antigens,inducing an in situ antitumor immune response.Immunotherapy,including the use of antibodies,vaccines,immunoadjuvants and cytokines,when combined with phototherapy,could bring a synergistic effect to stimulate a host immune response that effectuates a long-term antitumor immunity.This review will focus on the development of photonics immunotherapy and its systemic antitumor immunological effects.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Advances in Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics:Part II

The 9th Chinese–Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics was held online on 28–30 September 2020.The bilateral workshop brought together both Russian and Chinese scientists,engineers,and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science,photonics,and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine.During the workshop,2 plenary lectures,35 invited presentations,5 oral presentations,and 8 internet reports were presented.This special issue selects some papers from the attendees and includes both research and review articles.

INTRODUCTION:SPECIAL ISSUE ON ADVANCES IN BIOPHOTONICS AND BIOMEDICAL OPTICS-PART I

The 5th Russian-Chinese Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics was hosted in Saratov,Russia on 26-28,September,2012.The bilateral Workshop brought together both Russian and Chinese scientists,engineers and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science,photonics and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine.During the W orkshop,2 plenary lectures,11 invited presentations,4 oral presentations and 13 poster reports were presented.A special Internet session with 5 presentations-1 plenary,2 invited,and 2 posters was also organized.This special issue selects some papers from the attendees,and is made up of 12 original research articles and one review.Seven articles will be presented in Vol.6 No.1 of JIOHS,while the remaining five articles will be presented in Vol.6 No.2.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Advances in Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics

The 9th Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biopho-tonics and Biomedical Optics was held online on 28-30 September 2020.The bilateral workshop brought together both Russian and Chinese scientists,engineers,and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science,photonics,and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine.During the workshop,2 ple-nary lectures,35 invited presentations,5 oral pre-sentations,and 8 internet reports were presented.This special issue selects some papers from the attendees and includes both research and review articles.

INTRODUCTION:SPECIAL ISSUE ON ADV ANCES IN BIOPHOTONICS AND BIOMEDICAL OPTICS-PART II

The 5th Russian-Chinese W orkshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics was hosted in Saratov,Russia on 26-28,September,2012.The bilateral Workshop brought together both Russian and Chinese scientists,engineers and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science,photonics and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine.During the Workshop,2 plenary lectures,11 invited presentations,4 oral presentations and 13 poster reports were presented.A special Internet session with 5 presentations-1 plenary,2 invited,and 2 posters,was also organized.This special issue selects some papers from the attendees,and is made up of 12 original research articles and one review.Seven articles have been presented in Vol.6,No.1 of JIOHS;this issue presents the remaining six articles.

Advance in Microwave Photonics

Microwave photonics is a combination of microwave and photonics in concepts,devices and systems.Its typical research involves optical generation,processing and conversion of microwave signals,as well as distribution and transmission of microwave signals on optical links.Research achievements of microwave photonics have promoted the development of some new technologies,including Radio over Fiber (RoF) communication,subcarrier multiplexing and fiber transmission in Cable Television (CATV) system,optical controlled beam forming network with phased array radar and measurement technologies in microwave frequency domain.