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Mems-based zerO-power Reconfigurable Photonic ICs
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Volatile and non-volatile nano-electromechanical switches fabricated in a CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator foundry process
Yingying Li
Simon J. Bleiker
Elliott Worsey
Mael Dagon
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Niels Quack
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Kristinn B. Gylfason
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING
2025
Efficient low-voltage phase shifter with inkjet-printed liquid crystal on a silicon on insulator platform
Lukas Van Iseghem
Umar Khan
Ewout Picavet
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Klaartje De Buysser
Jeroen Beeckman
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
2025
Single-chip silicon photonic engine for analog optical and microwave signals processing
Hong Deng
Jing Zhang
Emadreza Soltanian
Xiangfeng Chen
Chao Pang
Nicolas Vaissiere
Delphine Neel
Joan Ramirez
Jean Decobert
Nishant Singh
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2025
A compact programmable silicon photonic circuit
Yu Zhang
Xiangfeng Chen
Lukas Van Iseghem
Iman Zand
Hasan Salmanian Alanagh
Wim Bogaerts
P1
Conference
2024
Tutorial : programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2024
Programmable photonics
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2024
Programmable photonics
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2024
Building general-purpose programmable photonic chips: opportunities and challenges
Wim Bogaerts
Hong Deng
Xiangfeng Chen
Lukas Van Iseghem
Iman Zand
Yu Zhang
Yichen Liu
Aladdin Al Haffar
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
et al.
C3
Conference
2024
Present and future of micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits
Günther Roelkens
Jing Zhang
Laurens Bogaert
Emadreza Soltanian
Maximilien Billet
Ali Uzun
Biwei Pan
Yang Liu
Evangelia Delli
Dongbo Wang
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
APL PHOTONICS
2024
Integrated reconfigurable modulator for microwave photonic filtering
Hong Deng
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2023
Photonic integrated circuits realized using micro-transfer printing
Jing Zhang
Laurens Bogaert
Maximilien Billet
Dongbo Wang
Biwei Pan
Senbiao Qin
Emadreza Soltanian
Stijn Cuyvers
Dennis Maes
Tom Vanackere
et al.
C1
Conference
2023
A MEMS tunable phase monitor with integrated photodiode read-out for silicon photonic circuits
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Cleitus Antony
Peter Verheyen
Umar Khan
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
C1
Conference
2023
Integrated 4-terminal single-contact nanoelectromechanical relays implemented in a silicon-on-insulator foundry process
Yingying Li
Elliott Worsey
Simon J. Bleiker
Pierre Edinger
Mukesh Kumar Kulsreshath
Qi Tang
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Niels Quack
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NANOSCALE
2023
Wavelength converter using micro transfer-printed optical amplifiers on a full SiPh platform
Hong Deng
Emadreza Soltanian
Jing Zhang
Günther Roelkens
Wim Bogaerts
P1
Conference
2023
Low-power actuators for programmable photonic processors
Umar Khan
Iman Zand
Lukas Van Iseghem
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Simon J. Bleiker
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Cleitus Antony
Moises Jezzini
Giuseppe Talli
et al.
C1
Conference
2023
Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Lukas Van Iseghem
Xiangfeng Chen
Hong Deng
Iman Zand
Yu Zhang
Yichen Liu
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
et al.
C1
Conference
2023
A nonlinear activation function for optical neural networks using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a III-V-on-Si amplifier
Yu Zhang
Hong Deng
Emadreza Soltanian
Jing Zhang
Günther Roelkens
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2023
Micro-transfer printing InP C-band SOAs on advanced silicon photonics platform for lossless MZI switch fabrics and high-speed integrated transmitters
Jing Zhang
Laurens Bogaert
Clemens Krückel
Emadreza Soltanian
Hong Deng
Bahawal Haq
Johanna Rimböck
Joris Van Kerrebrouck
Guy Lepage
Peter Verheyen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICS EXPRESS
2023
Integrated silicon photonic MEMS
Niels Quack
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Simon J. Bleiker
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Frank Niklaus
Umar Khan
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING
2023
Vacuum-sealed silicon photonic MEMS tunable ring resonator with an independent control over coupling and phase
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Chris Phong Van Nguyen
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Cleitus Antony
Giuseppe Talli
Peter Verheyen
Umar Khan
Simon J. Bleiker
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICS EXPRESS
2023
Micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous Si photonic integrated circuits
Günther Roelkens
Jing Zhang
Laurens Bogaert
Maximilien Billet
Dongbo Wang
Biwei Pan
Clemens Krückel
Emadreza Soltanian
Dennis Maes
Tom Vanackere
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
2023
Silicon photonic MEMS for efficient scaling of programmable integrated optics
Niels Quack
Alain Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Simon J. Bleiker
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Frank Niklaus
Umar Khan
et al.
C3
Conference
2022
Technologies for large-scale programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Lukas Van Iseghem
Xiangfeng Chen
Iman Zand
Hong Deng
Mi Wang
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C3
Conference
2022
Low voltage tuning of ring resonator on a silicon photonics platform with local liquid crystal deposition
Lukas Van Iseghem
Umar Khan
Ewout Picavet
A. Y. Takabayashi
Peter Verheyen
Niels Quack
Klaartje De Buysser
Jeroen Beeckman
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2022
Programmable photonic circuits powered by silicon photonic MEMS technology
Wim Bogaerts
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Arun Kumar Mallik
Cleituis Antony
Iman Zand
Tigers Jonuzi
Xiangfeng Chen
Hamed Sattari
et al.
C1
Conference
2022
Panel : programmable photonic chips for artificial intelligence, computing and optical networks
K. Bergman
Wim Bogaerts
J. Capmany
J. Poon
C3
Conference
2022
Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry process
Hamed Sattari
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
A2
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF OPTICAL MICROSYSTEMS
2022
Programmable silicon photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Xiangfeng Chen
Hong Deng
Lukas Van Iseghem
Mi Wang
Iman Zand
Yu Zhang
Yichen Liu
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C1
Conference
2022
Software framework architecture for programmable photonic chips
Iman Zand
C. Antony
Xiangfeng Chen
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2022
Low power phase shifter using liquid crystal on an integrated silicon photonics platform
Lukas Van Iseghem
Umar Khan
Ewout Picavet
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Peter Verheyen
Niels Quack
Klaartje De Buysser
Jeroen Beeckman
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2022
Configurable modulator based optical carrier frequency suppressed intensity modulation
Hong Deng
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2022
MORPHIC : MEMS enhanced silicon photonics for programmable photonics
Umar Khan
Iman Zand
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Simon J. Bleiker
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Cleitus Antony
Moises Jezzini
Giuseppe Talli
Hamed Sattari
et al.
P1
Conference
2022
Add-drop silicon ring resonator with low-power MEMS tuning of phase and coupling
Pierre Edinger
Chris Phong Van Nguyen
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Cleitus Antony
Giuseppe Talli
Peter Verheyen
Umar Khan
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
C1
Conference
2022
Large scale programmable photonic circuits using silicon photonic MEMS
Umar Khan
Iman Zand
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Simon J. Bleiker
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Cleitus Antony
Junsu Lee
Arun Kumar Malik
Peter Verheyen
et al.
C1
Conference
2022
Low-power micro-electro-mechanical ring resonators on IMEC's iSiPP50G platform
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Umar Khan
Cleitus Antony
Giuseppe Talli
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
C3
Conference
2022
Does the world need general-purpose programmable photonics?
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2022
Programmable wavelength filter with double ring loaded MZI
Mi Wang
Xiangfeng Chen
Umar Khan
Wim Bogaerts
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2022
Wafer-level hermetically sealed silicon photonic MEMS
Gaehun Jo
Pierre Edinger
Simon J. Bleiker
Xiaojing Wang
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Niels Quack
Moises Jezzini
Jun Su Lee
Peter Verheyen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
PHOTONICS RESEARCH
2022
Low power optical phase shifter using liquid crystal actuation on a silicon photonics platform
Lukas Van Iseghem
Ewout Picavet
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Umar Khan
Peter Verheyen
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Klaartje De Buysser
Jeroen Beeckman
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
2022
Integrated optical transmitter with micro-transfer-printed widely tunable III-V-on-Si laser
Jing Zhang
Emadreza Soltanian
Bahawal Haq
Stefan Ertl
Johanna Rimbock
Bozena Matuskova
Emanuele Pelucchi
Agnieska Gocalinska
Joris Van Campenhout
Guy Lepage
et al.
P1
Conference
2022
Programmable silicon photonic circuits powered by MEMS
Wim Bogaerts
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Gaehun Jo
Iman Zand
Peter Verheyen
Moises Jezzini
Hamed Sattari
Giuseppe Talli
Cleitus Antony
et al.
P1
Conference
2022
A bistable silicon photonic mems phase switch for nonvolatile photonic circuits
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Umar Khan
Cleitus Antony
Giuseppe Talli
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
P1
Conference
2022
Compact integrated silicon photonic mems power coupler for programmable photonics
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Duarte Silva
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
P1
Conference
2022
Thermo-mechanical noise measurement of sealed nanobeams on a silicon photonics-MEMS platform
Khannan Rajendran
Awanish Pandey
P. Edinger
G. Jo
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Umar Khan
Peter Verheyen
Niels Quack
Frank Niklaus
Wim Bogaerts
et al.
P1
Conference
2021
Programmable silicon photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Lukas Van Iseghem
Xiangfeng Chen
Iman Zand
Hong Deng
Mi Wang
Yu Zhang
Yichen Liu
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C3
Conference
2021
Configurable phase/amplitude modulator circuit based on silicon plasma dispersion
Hong Deng
Wim Bogaerts
P1
Conference
2021
Forward stimulated brillouin scattering in free-standing waveguides on a silicon photonics platform
Khannan Rajendran
Awanish Pandey
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Umar Khan
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Dries Van Thourhout
C1
Conference
2021
Programmable silicon photonics
Wim Bogaerts
Lukas Van Iseghem
Mi Wang
Hong Deng
Iman Zand
Xiangfeng Chen
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C1
Conference
2021
Silicon photonic MEMS phase shifter with μs time constant built on a foundry platform
Pierre Edinger
Kristofer Kristinsson
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Niels Quack
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Kristinn B. Gylfason
P1
Conference
2021
Tutorial : programmable photonics
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2021
Continuously tunable silicon photonic MEMS 2 x 2 power coupler
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
P1
Conference
2021
General-purpose programmable photonic chips
Wim Bogaerts
Mi Wang
Xiangfeng Chen
Hong Deng
Iman Zand
Lukas Van Iseghem
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C1
Conference
2021
Programmable photonic circuits using silicon photonics MEMS
Wim Bogaerts
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Iman Zand
Gaehun Jo
Hamed Sattari
Peter Verheyen
Moises A. Jezzini
Cleitus Antony
Giuseppe Talli
et al.
C1
Conference
2021
Programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Lukas Van Iseghem
Mi Wang
Hong Deng
Xiangfeng Chen
Iman Zand
Nagarjun Katta Pradeep Kumar
Umar Khan
C3
Conference
2021
Scalable nano-opto-electromechanical systems in silicon photonics
Niels Quack
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Geahun Jo
Frank Niklaus
Peter Verheyen
Moises Jezzini
Umar Khan
et al.
P1
Conference
2021
Silicon photonic microelectromechanical phase shifters for scalable programmable photonics
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Umar Khan
Hamed Sattari
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
Kristinn B. Gylfason
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICS LETTERS
2021
Compact and low power silicon photonic components based on MEMS
K. B. Gylfason
P. Edinger
C. Errando-Herranz
A. Y. Takabayashi
H. Sattari
N. Quack
P. Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2021
Programmable photonic circuits for linear processing
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2021
Wafer-level vacuum sealing for packaging of silicon photonic MEMS
Gaehun Jo
Pierre Edinger
Simon Bleiker
Xiaojing Wang
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Niels Quack
Moises A. Jezzini de Anda
Peter Verheyen
Göran Stemme
et al.
P1
Conference
2021
Low-voltage silicon photonic MEMS switch with vertical actuation
Hamed Sattari
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
P1
Conference
2021
Tutorial : programmable integrated photonics
Wim Bogaerts
Xiangfeng Chen
Iman Zand
Mi Wang
Hong Deng
Lukas Van Iseghem
Abdul Rahim
Umar Khan
P1
Conference
2021
Silicon photonic MEMS add-drop filter
Hamed Sattari
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Pierre Edinger
Peter Verheyen
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
P1
Conference
2021
Programmable silicon photonic integrated circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Xiangfeng Chen
Mi Wang
Iman Zand
Hong Deng
Lukas Van Iseghem
Antônio Ribeiro Alves Júnior
Alejandro Diaz Tormo
Umar Khan
P1
Conference
2020
Programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Daniel Perez
Jose Capmany
David A. B. Miller
Joyce Poon
Dirk Englund
Francesco Morichetti
Andrea Melloni
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE
2020
Programmable photonic circuits : a flexible way of manipulating light on chips
Wim Bogaerts
Abdul Rahim
Xiangfeng Chen
Lukas Van Iseghem
Hong Deng
Mi Wang
Iman Zand
Antônio Ribeiro Alves Júnior
Alejandro Diaz Tormo
Umar Khan
C1
Conference
2020
Building large-scale programmable photonic circuits using silicon photonic MEMS
Wim Bogaerts
Pierre Edinger
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Iman Zand
Xiangfeng Chen
Xiaojing Wang
Hamed Sattari
Peter Verheyen
Moises A. Jezzini
Giuseppe Talli
et al.
C1
Conference
2020
Programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
C3
Conference
2020
Compact broadband suspended silicon photonic directional coupler
Hamed Sattari
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Yu Zhang
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Niels Quack
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICS LETTERS
2020
Graph representations for programmable photonic circuits
Xiangfeng Chen
Pieter Stroobant
Mario Pickavet
Wim Bogaerts
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
2020
Application-specific scaling in programmable photonic circuits
Iman Zand
Xiangfeng Chen
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2020
Liquid crystal phase shifter integrated in a silicon photonics platform
Lukas Van Iseghem
Umar Khan
Pierre Edinger
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Hamed Sattari
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Niels Quack
Jeroen Beeckman
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2020
Broadband compact single-pole double-throw silicon photonic MEMS switch
A.Y. Takabayashi
H. Sattari
P. Edinger
P. Verheyen
K.B. Gylfason
Wim Bogaerts
N. Quack
C1
Conference
2020
Compact low loss MEMS phase shifters for scalable field-programmable silicon photonics
P. Edinger
C. Enando-Herranz
A.Y. Takabayashi
H. Sattari
N. Quack
P. Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
K.B. Gylfason
P1
Conference
2020
MORPHIC : programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS
Wim Bogaerts
Hamed Sattari
Pierre Edinger
Alain Y. Takabayashi
Iman Zand
Xiaojing Wang
Antônio Ribeiro Alves Júnior
Moises A. Jezzini de Anda
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Giuseppe Talli
et al.
P1
Conference
2020
Programmable photonics : an opportunity for an accessible large-volume PIC ecosystem
Wim Bogaerts
Abdul Rahim
A1
Journal Article
in
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
2020
MEMS-enabled silicon photonic integrated devices and circuits
Niels Quack
Hamed Sattari
Alain Yuji Takabayashi
Yu Zhang
Peter Verheyen
Wim Bogaerts
Pierre Edinger
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Kristinn B. Gylfason
A1
Journal Article
in
IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
2020
Effects of coupling and phase imperfections in programmable photonic hexagonal waveguide meshes
Iman Zand
Wim Bogaerts
A1
Journal Article
in
PHOTONICS RESEARCH
2020
Technologies for large-scale programmable photonic circuits
Wim Bogaerts
Antônio Ribeiro Alves Júnior
Mi Wang
Lukas Van Iseghem
Hong Deng
Iman Zand
Xiangfeng Chen
Umar Khan
C3
Conference
2019
Generic platform for silicon photonics based on MEMS reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits
Umar Khan
Banafsheh Abasahl
Iman Zand
N. Quack
K. Gylfason
M. Jezzini
H.Y. Hwang
M.A.G. Porcel
C. Lerma Arce
S. Kumar
et al.
C3
Conference
2019
Discretization effects of digital control of thermally tunable 2x2 MZI couplers
Iman Zand
Wim Bogaerts
C1
Conference
2019
Low-power optical beam steering by microelectromechanical waveguide gratings
Carlos Errando-Herranz
Nicolas Le Thomas
Kristinn B. Gylfason
A1
Journal Article
in
OPTICS LETTERS
2019
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