On the evening of April 20, China Laser Magazine released "2022 Top 10 Progresses in Chinese Optics". The Center's research achievement "Microcavity optical comb-driven novel silicon-based optoelectronics on-chip integration system" was selected as "2022 China's top ten advances in optics" (basic research category).
The Center, together with Prof. John E. Bowers' team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has solved the challenges of simple robust excitation and long-time stability of microcavity optical combs, the design of silicon-based system for optical comb light source and the reconfigurable multi-dimensional spectral shaping technology on silicon-based wafer, and has realized the new silicon-based on-chip optoelectronic system driven by Kerr microcavity optical combs for the first time in the world, which is expected to be applied to the fields of data center, 5/6G signal processing, autonomous driving and optical computing, providing a new research paradigm and development direction for the next-generation on-chip optoelectronic information system. The results were published in the journal Nature under the title "Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems".
The co-first authors of the results are Hao-Wen Shu, a postdoctoral fellow of the Center's Bohin Program (currently employed at the School of Electronics of Peking University as an assistant professor and researcher), Dr. Chang Lin of the University of California, Santa Barbara (currently employed at the School of Electronics of Peking University as an assistant professor and researcher, an independent PI and forming a group), and Yuan-Sheng Tao and Bitao Shen, doctoral students of the Center. Prof. Xingjun Wang and John E. Bowers are the co-corresponding authors of the paper. Academician Shaohua Yu of Pengcheng Laboratory participated in this work and provided important guidance. Key collaborators also include Dr. Wei-Qiang Xie (now Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Ph.D. student Andrew Netherton at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Center Ph.D. students Ming Jin, Zihan Tao, and Xuguang Zhang, and post-doctoral fellows Ruixuan Chen, Bowen Bai, and Jun Qin (now Associate Professor at the Beijing University of Information Science and Technology). This work is completed by the State Key Laboratory of Regional Optical Fiber Communication Networks and New Optical Communication Systems, School of Electronics, Peking University, as the first unit, and is also an important result of the cooperation with Pengcheng Laboratory, which is one of the core contents of the major research tasks of the Circuits and Systems Department of Pengcheng Laboratory.
The "Top 10 Progresses in Chinese Optics" award was initiated by China Laser Magazine and has been successfully held for 17 times, aiming to promote the wide dissemination of excellent optical research results and the development of China's optics industry. By virtue of the high academic standard of the candidates and the strict and fair evaluation mechanism, this award is highly recognized by the industry and has a high degree of credibility and influence.
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