SiPh‑X Lab at HKUST(GZ)
Silicon Photonics eXploration and Cross‑Disciplinary Laboratory
2026
Self-Configuring Universal Multichannel and Multidimensional Integrated Photonic Processing Engine
Optica,
2026
High-Efficiency, Broadband, and Polarization-Diversity Multicore Fiber-Chip Interfaces for Optical I/O
ACS Photonics,
2026，13 (15): 4158–4166.
Ultra-Dense and Multidimensional 98-Channel Chip-to-Fiber Optical I/O With Real-Time Control
Journal of Lightwave Technology
2026, 44 (14), 6061-6067
Silicon Microring Modulators with 5.2 THz FSR and 69 GHz EO Bandwidth for 3.2-Tbps DWDM Integrated
Photonic Transmitters
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC)
2026
Efficient and Polarization-Independent Coupling of Silicon Photonic Chips with 7-Core Multicore Fibers
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
2026
On-Chip Reconfigurable Wavefront Shaper for Precise Spatial and Polarization Control
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
2026.
Efficient Spatial and Polarization Mode Multiplexer for Few-Mode Fibers Using Silicon-Based Grating
Couplers
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
2026.
Integrated Diffractive Recirculating Microring Mesh for Picometer-Resolution Spectroscopy
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
2026,
Top-scored paper
SuperPhys-Net: A Physics-Informed Super-Resolution Electromagnetic Simulator for Nanophotonic Devices
IEEE/ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE)
2026
"Integrated photonics enabling ultra-wideband fibre--wireless communication"
Nature, 651 (8105), 348-355
2026.
"200 Gb/s All-Silicon Photodetection Enabled by Response-Engineered Tandem Microrings"
ACS Photonics, 13 (5), 1284-1291,
2026.
"High-Bandwidth and Efficient Silicon Microring Modulator Enabling Low-complexity DMT Transmission"
Journal of Lightwave Technology
2026, 44 (12), 5116-5122
2025
"Adaptive Reconfiguration and Full Control of Light Structures in Optical Fibers with Programmable
Silicon Photonics"
Optica, 12 (3), 329-336,
2025.
"Efficient Polarization-Diversity Grating Coupler with Multipolar Radiation Mode Enhancement"
IEEE Photonics Journal, 17, 2, 7100206
2025.
"A Camera-Free and Picometer-Scale Resolution Few-mode Fiber Spectrometer"
APL Photonics, 10 (7), 076109,
2025.
"Whispering Gallery Mode Enhanced Broadband and High-Speed Silicon Microring
Modulator"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 43, 18, 8792-8798 2025
"Bridging Single-Mode and Few-Mode Fiber Systems via Multidimensional On-Chip
Optical Processing and Switching"
Laser & Photonics Reviews, e00546 2025
"Picometer-Scale Resolution Speckle Spectrometer Enabled by a Hybrid Dispersive
Fiber-Chip System"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 43, 22, 10337-10343 2025
"Single-Shot Integrated Speckle Spectrometer with Ultrahigh
Bandwidth-to-Resolution"
Laser & Photonics Reviews, e02104 2025
"Reconfigurable Hybrid Polarization/Wavelength (De)Multiplexer for 1.6-Tbps Fiber
Communications"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 43, 24, 10995-11001 2025
"Transfer Learning Enhanced Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on Flexible Optical
Pulse Sensing Patch"
ACS Sensors, 10, 4, 2732–2742 2025
"Ultra-Dense and Efficient 98-Channel Fiber-to-Chip Connectivity with Polarization
Diversity"
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2025
"Constraints-aware Adaptive Routing with Hybrid Waveguides for Photonic Integrated
Circuits"
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2025
"ThermoPhoton: Fast 3D Thermal Simulation of Photonic Integrated Circuits via
Operator Learning"
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2025
"Enabling 448-Gbps-per-Wavelength Fiber Communications with Integrated Silicon
Photonic Transceiver and Processor"
European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2025, Top-scored paper
"Machine Learning-Assisted Design Automation of Integrated Photonic Devices"
2025 International Symposium of Electronics Design Automation (ISEDA)
2025
"Picometer-scale resolution spectrometer based on an equivalent reconfigurable
few-mode fiber"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025
"Efficient and Adaptive Optical Fiber Wavefront Generator with Programmable Silicon
Photonics"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025
"Single-shot Integrated Computational Spectrometer with Random Projection and
Antenna Arrays"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025
"A 448Gbps Silicon Photonic Transceiver with On-Chip Polarization Control"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025
"A Compact Integrated Photonic Processor for Real-Time Polarization Control"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025
"256-Gbps Whispering-Gallery Mode Enhanced Silicon Microring Modulator with a Free Spectral Range of 4.5
THz"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)
2025
"A Compact and Efficient 2D Grating Coupler for Polarization-Insensitive Fiber-to-Chip I/O"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)
2025
"Ultra-Broadband Double-Layered Polarization Rotator by Inverse Design and 193-nm DUV Lithography"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)
2025
"An 8-Channel Optical Selective Switch for Polarization and Wavelength Multiplexed Fiber Networks"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)
2025
"PICBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Photonic Integrated Circuits Design"
Date (Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference)
2025
"Bi-Level Optimization Accelerated DRC-Aware Physical Design Automation for Photonic Devices"
Date (Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference)
2025
"Automatic Routing for Photonic Integrated Circuits under Delay Matching Constraints"
Date (Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference)
2025
2024
"Ultra-low-loss slow-light thin-film lithium-niobate optical modulator"
arxiv
2024
"Low-Loss and Low-Power Silicon Ring Based WDM 32×100 GHz Filter Enabled by a Novel Bend Design"
Laser & Photonics Reviews
2024
"Always-Feasible Photonic Inverse Design with a Differentiable Conditional Design Generator"
ACS Photonics
2024
"A quasi-matching scheme for arbitrary group velocity match in electro-optic modulation"
APL Photonics, 9 (8): 086112
2024
"Mode-Multiplexed PAM-4 Fiber Optic Interconnects using Integrated Silicon Photonic Processors"
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Roma, Italy
2024
"Empowering high-dimensional optical fiber communications with integrated photonic processors"
Nature Communications, 15, 3515
2024
"Ultra-compact and efficient integrated multichannel mode multiplexer in silicon for few-mode fibers"
Laser & Photonics Reviews, 18, 2300460
2024
"Towards Tbps Single-λ Interconnect by a Multimode Integrated Optical I/O on Silicon for Few-Mode
Fibers"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2024, M3B.2, San Diego, USA
2024,
Top-scored paper
"Transverse stress sensor based on FMF and silicon photonic integrated circuits"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2024), Charlotte, USA
2024
"Enhanced Atmospheric Turbulence Resiliency in Free Space Optical Communication with Silicon-Photonics
Based Grating Coupler Array and Maximal-Ratio-Combining (MRC) Algorithm"
ECOC 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication, 1889-1892
2024
"Carrier-suppressed Silicon IQ Modulator at 75 Gbaud"
IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics) 2024, Japan
2024
2023
"Unmixing Data Lanes in Mode-Division Multiplexing Optical Fiber Transmission
Using an Integrated Photonic Processor"
Journal of Lightwave Technology 2023
"Multichip multidimensional quantum networks with entanglement retrievability"
Science, 381, 221-226 (†equal contribution) 2023
"Long Short Term Memory Neural Network (LSTMNN) and inter-symbol feature
extraction for 160 Gbit/s PAM4 from silicon micro-ring transmitter"
Optics Communications, vol. 529, pp. 129067 2023
"Towards 3.2 Tb/s Direct Detection Polarization-Multiplexed Transceivers using
on-chip Microring assisted Coherent Network"
European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC 2023, pp. 1–2
2023
2022
"A Compact 112-Gbaud PAM-4 Silicon Photonics Transceiver for Short-Reach
Interconnects"
Journal of Lightwave Technology 2022
"Multimode waveguide grating coupler"
US Patent US11428869B2 2022
2021
"Nonparaxial Mode-Size Converter Using an Ultracompact Metamaterial Mikaelian
Lens"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 2077–2083
2021
"High-performance III-V photodetectors on a monolithic InP/SOI platform"
Optica, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1204–1209 2021
"4.36 Tbit/s silicon chip-to-chip transmission via Few-Mode Fiber (FMF) using 2D
sub-wavelength grating couplers"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2021, pp. M3D–6 2021
"Long short-term memory neural network for mitigating transmission impairments
of 160 Gbit/s PAM4 microring modulation"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2021, pp. 1–3 2021
"40 G III-V photodetectors on a monolithic InP/SOI platform"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2021, pp. 1–2 2021
"1.3 µm regrown quantum-dot distributed feedback lasers on (001) Si: A pathway
to scale towards 1 Tbit/s"
2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Proceedings, pp. SM1H–6
2021
"Subwavelength Silicon Photonics"
Silicon Photonics IV, Springer, vol. 139, pp. 285–321 2021
2020
"Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Advanced High-Capacity Optical
Communications"
PhD Thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2020
"Ultra-Broadband Hyperuniform Disordered Silicon Photonic Polarizers"
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1–9
2020
"Efficient Mode Multiplexer for Few-Mode Fibers Using Integrated
Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide Grating Coupler"
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 56, no. 1 2020
"Low Dark Current High Gain InAs Quantum Dot Avalanche Photodiodes Monolithically
Grown on Si"
ACS Photonics, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 528–533 2020
"Directly Modulated Single-Mode Tunable Quantum Dot Lasers at 1.3 µm"
Laser and Photonics Reviews, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 2070021 2020
"High-dimensional communication on etchless lithium niobate platform with photonic
bound states in the continuum"
Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 2602 2020
"High-speed infrared two-dimensional platinum diselenide photodetectors"
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, no. 21, pp. 211101 2020
"1.3 µm Quantum Dot-Distributed Feedback Lasers Directly Grown on (001) Si"
Laser and Photonics Reviews, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 2000037 (†equal contribution)
2020
"An Experimental Demonstration of 160-Gbit/s PAM-4 Using a Silicon Micro-Ring
Modulator"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 125–128 2020
"1.12-Tbit/s PAM-4 Enabled by a Silicon Photonic Transmitter Bridged with a
7-Channel MCF"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 32, no. 16, pp. 987–990 2020
"Bound-States-in-Continuum Hybrid Integration of 2D Platinum Diselenide on Silicon
Nitride for High-Speed Photodetectors"
ACS Photonics, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 2643–2649 2020
"1.3 µm Quantum Dot-Distributed Feedback Lasers Directly Grown on (001) Si"
Laser and Photonics Reviews, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 2070042 2020
"Hybrid Two-Dimensional-Material Photonics with Bound States in the Continuum"
Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS, vol. 2020-May, no. 24, pp. 1901306
2020
"High efficiency, high gain and high saturation output power quantum dot SOAs grown
on Si and applications"
Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2020, vol. OFC 2020, pp. T4H–3
2020
"Bridging the Graded-Index Few-Mode Fibre with Photonic Integrated Circuits via
Efficient Diffraction Waveguide Gratings"
European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) 2020, vol. 1, pp. 7–9
2020
"1.3 um Tunable Quantum Dot Lasers"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2020, vol. CLEO-SI 2020, pp. SF2E–1
2020
"Graphene-silicon nitride photodetector with bound state in the continuum"
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2020, vol. Part F183-CLEO-SI 2020, pp. STu4O–4
2020
"Hybrid Two-Dimensional-Material Photonics with Bound States in the Continuum"
Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS, vol. 2020-May, pp. STh1F–7
2020
2020
"Silicon photonics for spatially multiplexed high capacity optical fiber
communications"
2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2020 - Proceedings, pp. 1–3
2020
"280 Gb/s Dual-Polarization Transmitter using Ge-on-Si EAMs for Short-Reach
Interconnects"
2020 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2020 - Proceedings, pp. 1–2 2020
2019
"Integrated silicon photonics Remote Radio Frontend (RRF) for Single-Sideband (SSB)
Millimeter-Wave Radio-Over-Fiber (ROF) systems"
IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1–8 2019
"Hybrid 2D-Material Photonics with Bound States in the Continuum"
Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 7, no. 24, pp. 1901306 2019
"112 Gb/s 16-QAM OFDM for 80-km Data Center Interconnects Using Silicon Photonic
Integrated Circuits and Kramers-Kronig Detection"
Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 14, pp. 3532–3538 2019
"Hyperuniform disordered photonic bandgap polarizers"
Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 126, no. 11, pp. 113106 2019
"Highly-Sensitive Phase and Frequency Noise Measurement Technique Using Bayesian
Filtering"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 23, pp. 1866–1869
2019
"Mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) of 9.4-Tbit/s OFDM signals on silicon-on-insulator
(SOI) Platform"
IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 129104–129111 2019
"Experimental demonstration of 1111-Gb/s net information rate using IM/DD
probabilistically shaped orthogonal chirp-division multiplexing with a 10-GHz-class modulator"
Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 23, pp. 33789 2019
"80-km transmission with silicon micro-ring modulators and Kramers-Kronig direct
detection"
2019 Optical Fiber Communications Conference, vol. OFC 2019, pp. Tu2A–4
2019, Top-scored paper
"Implementing Deep Neural Network for Signal Transmission Distortion Mitigation of
PAM-4 Generated by Silicon Mach-Zehnder Modulator"
OECC/PSC 2019 - 24th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference Photonics in Switching and Computing 2019, pp. 1–3
2019
"Continuous-Wave Raman Lasing in Silicon Ring Resonator with Sub-Milliwatt Pump
Threshold"
2019 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2019 - Proceedings, pp. 1–2 2019
"Highly efficient cascaded four-wave mixing in a silicon racetrack resonator"
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2019, vol. ACPC 2019, pp. M4A–240
2019
"256 Gb/s PAM4 signal transmission with microring modulator based monolithic
dual-polarization silicon transmitter"
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2019, vol. ACPC 2019, pp. 1–3
2019
"Silicon-photonics based remote-radio-head using mode and wavelength division
multiplexing with capacity of 4.781 tbit/s for radio-over-fiber massive MIMO"
IET Conference Publications, vol. 2019, no. CP765 2019
"Efficient Mode Multiplexer for Few-Mode Fibers Using Integrated
Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide Grating Coupler"
European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) 2019 2019
"Silicon-photonics based remote-radio-head using mode and wavelength division
multiplexing with capacity of 4.781 tbit/s for radio-over-fiber massive MIMO"
45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2019), vol. 2019, no. CP765
2019
2018
"Negative Frequency-Chirped 112-Gb/s PAM-4 Using an Integrated Germanium
Franz-Keldysh Modulator"
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 30, no. 16, pp. 1443–1446
2018
"Integrated germanium-on-silicon Franz–Keldysh vector modulator used with a
Kramers–Kronig receiver"
Optics Letters, vol. 43, no. 18, pp. 4333 2018
"Efficient perfectly vertical grating coupler for multi-core fibers fabricated with
193 nm DUV lithography"
Optics Letters, vol. 43, no. 23, pp. 5709 2018
"Monolithic dual-polarization silicon modulator for 180 Gb/s DMT signal
transmission"
2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition, OFC 2018 - Proceedings, pp. 1–3
2018
"Assessment of integrated Ge Franz-Keldysh modulator for discrete multi-tone
modulation"
2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition, OFC 2018 - Proceedings, pp. 1–3
2018
"112-Gb/s PAM-4 using Integrated Germanium on Silicon Franz Keldysh Modulator"
2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings, pp. SM4B–4
2018
"Compact and High-Speed Ge Franz-Keldysh I/Q Modulator Used with Kramers-Kronig
Receiver"
31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society, IPC 2018, pp. 1–2
2018