Publications

ECOC, September 2021

• Silicon IQ Modulator for 120 Gbaud QAM (pdf) 
• Silicon Microring Modulator with Polarization Insensitivity (pdf) 

OFC, June 2021

• Silicon Nitride Band Splitter Based on Multimode Bragg Gratings (pdf) 
• DAC-Less PAM-4 Slow-Light Silicon Photonic Modulator Assisted by Coupled Bragg Grating Resonators (pdf)

IEEE BlackSeaCom, May 2021

• Geometric Constellation Shaping Using Initialized Autoencoders (pdf) (video)

CLEO, May 2021

• Raman-Kerr Combs in High-Q Chalcogenide Microresonators Coupled to Silicon Waveguides (pdf) 
• Hybrid Chalcogenide-Silicon Subwavelength Grating Waveguides Microring Resonators (pdf) 

CLEO, December 2020

• Characterization of an Aluminophosphosilicate Fiber with Annular Erbium Doping for Improved Performance of Cladding-Pumped Amplifiers (pdf) (video)

CLEO, May 2020

• Neural Nets to Approach Optimal Receivers for High Speed Optical Communication (pdf) (video)
• 5G Service Overlay in WD, Optical Access Network with Colorless Smart Edge Based on SiP MRM (pdf) (video)
• Two-channel data transmission on a polarization-maintaining highly elliptical core fiber without MIMO (pdf) (video)
• Hybrid Integration of High-Q Chalcogenide Microring Resonators on Silicon-on-insulator (pdf) (video)
• Silicon Nitride Arrayed Waveguide Grating with a Waveguide Superlattice (pdf) (video)

OFC, March 2020

• Modeling the Breakdown in Degeneracy for High-Index-Contrast Ring Core Fiber (pdf) (video)
• Silicon Photonics to Add 5G RoF Services to PONs Employing Carrier Reuse (pdf) (video)
• All Silicon IQ Modulator with 1Tb/s Line Rate (Top Scored Paper) (pdf) (video)
• An extended L-band EDFA using C-band pump wavelength (pdf) 
• Novel Fuseless Optical Fiber Side-Coupler based on Half-Taper for Cladding Pumped EDFAs (pdf) 
• Dual-Band Filtering Using a Single Device (poster)

ECOC, September 2019

• An 8-core Erbium-doped fiber with annular doping for low gain compression in cladding-pumped amplifiers (pdf) 
• Experimental Demonstration of a WDM-Compatible Polarization-Diverse OAM Generator and Multiplexer in Silicon Photonics (pdf) 

OFC, March 2019

• All-Silicon IQ Modulator for 100 GBaud 32QAM Transmissions (Post Deadline Paper) (video)
• Experimental Demonstration of Reduced-size LUT Predistortion for 256QAM SiP Transmitter (video)
• Ultra-Compact DWDM Filter Tunable Across the C-band (poster)
• Silicon Microring IQ Modulator Enabled Single Sideband OFDM Transmission (poster)

• Invited presentation at ECOC 2021, L. Rusch, S. LaRochelle & M. Banawan, Ring-core fibers supporting propagation of OAM modes (video)
• Invited tutorial presentation at ONDM 2021 25th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, L. Rusch, X. Guan & W. Shi, Silicon photonics enabling 5G optical networks over PON infrastructures (video)
• Invited workshop presentation at OFC 2021: Is Photonics Integration Ready for Next-Generation Optical Access Demands? L. Rusch, W. Shi & X. Guan, Challenges and opportunities in scaling SiP to higher baud rates (video)
• OSA Campfire Session 2021, W. Shi, Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics (video)
• Nanophotonics De Gruyter 2020, W. Shi, Y. Tian & A. Gervais, Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics (pdf)
• CLEO PacificRim 2020, L. Rusch, Optical Signal Processing for Coherent Communications (video)
• APC Networks 2020, L. Rusch, Design silicon photonics systems for high speed networks (video)
• APC Networks 2020, S. LaRochelle, Design of fibers with Erbium-ring-doping in the cladding for spatially integrated amplifiers (video)
• Photonics North 2020, W. Shi, Multiplexing of optical vortices in silicon photonic circuits (video)
• Photonics West 2020, W. Shi, Broadband silicon photonic polarimeter using subwavelength grating metamaterial waveguides (pdf) 
• OFC 2019, W. Shi, Silicon photonic modulators for high-capacity coherent transmissions (pdf) 
• IPC 2019, L. Rusch, Shaping optical fibers to mode division multiplex without MIMO (pdf)