Thurs. Nov 14, 2019 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm | ESB 2001 Photonic technologies are at the forefront of the ongoing 4th industrial revolution of digitalization supporting applications such as virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, and electronic warfare. The development of integrated photonics in recent years enabled functional devices and circuits through miniaturization. However, fundamental challenges such as the weak light-matter integration can limited silicon and III-Vbased devices to millimeter-scale footprints demanding about one million photons-per-bit. Overcoming these challenges, in the first part of this talk I will show how nanoscale photonics together with heterogeneous integration of emerging materials into foundry-based photonic chips enables strong nonlinearity, which we use to demonstrate attojoule and compact optoelectronics. Here I will discuss our recent devices demonstrating ITO-based MZI modulators, 2D-material excitonic photodetectors, and exotic epsilon-near-zero modes empowering record-efficient phase shifters for applications in data-comm, LiDAR, and photonic neural networks (NN). Further, I will show that the usually parasitic Kramers-Kronig relations of altering the optical index can be synergistically exploited delivering new modulator operations. With Moore’s law and Dennard scaling now being limited by fundamental physics, the trend in processor heterogeneity suggests the possibility for special-purpose photonic processors such as NNs or RF-signal & image filtering. Here unique opportunities exist, for example, given by algorithmic parallelism of analog computing enabling non-iterative O(1) processors, thus opening prospects for distributed nonvan Neumann architectures. In the second part of this talk, I will share our latest work on analog photonic processors to include a) a feed-forward fully-connected NN, b) mirror symmetry perception via coincidence detection of spiking NNs, c) a Fourier-optics based convolutional processor with 1 PMAC/s throughputs at nanosecond-short delays for real-time processing, d) a photonic residue arithmetic adder, and e) meshbased reconfigurable photonic & metatronic PDE solvers. In summary, heterogeneous photonics connects the worlds of electronics and optics, thus enabling new classes of efficient optoelectronics and analog processors by employing the distinctive properties of light. Pizza will be provided!
Thursday, Nov. 7th | 10:00 - 11:00 am | ESB 2001 Abstract: Graphene has emerged as an alternative saturable absorber to other semiconductors due to its nearly constant broadband absorption of 2.3%. It has been shown that graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials can be used as efficient saturable absorbers to generate ultrashort pulses from lasers operating in the near- and mid-infrared. However, the 2.3% absorption of the monolayer graphene introduces operational challenges to the lasers with low gains. To obviate such challenges, the Fermi level position of the graphene can be varied to control the amount of absorption at the desired wavelength. For this purpose, chemically- or electrostatically-doped novel graphene architectures with reduced optical insertion losses can be used to optimize the power performance of the femtosecond lasers. In this talk, the use of carbon-based saturable absorbers to generate ultrashort pulses from solid-state lasers will be presented and their current drawbacks will be discussed. This will be followed by the overview of the possible approaches, which have been demonstrated to shift the Fermi level of graphene to control the amount of absorption at the desired wavelength. At this point, the voltage-controlled graphene-based supercapacitor architectures proposed by our groups will be demonstrated and the femtosecond pulse generation results obtained with these devices will be discussed. In the remainder part of the talk, Dr. Baylam will give information about the opportunities provided by The Optical Society (OSA) to the graduate students and early career researchers. Snacks and Coffee will be provided.
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