Jiang Group — Publications
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Representative publications
1. High-density waveguide integration & Optical Phased Arrays(a) Weiwei Song, Robert Gatdula, Siamak Abbaslou, Ming Lu, Aaron Stein, Warren Y-C Lai, J. Provine, R. Fabian W. Pease, Demetrios N. Christodoulides & Wei Jiang, High-density waveguide superlattices with low crosstalk, Nature Communications 6, 7027 (2015). [link]
(b) Le-Meng Leng, Yue Shao, Pei-Yan Zhao, Guang-Fan Tao, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Wei Jiang, “Waveguide superlattice-based optical phased array,” Physical Review Applied 15, 014019 (2021). [link]
(c) Shichong Yang, Baihe Feng, Guihan Wu, Fuhao Yu, Jin Sha, and Wei Jiang, “Arbitrary Precise Pattern Former Using Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for On-Demand Beam Forming,” Laser & Photonics Reviews 20, e00914 (2026). [link]
(d) Shichong Yang, Guihan Wu, Kaifei Tang, Fuhao Yu, Xiang Ji, Yu Xin, and Wei Jiang, "Fast-beam-switching optical phased array for moving objects in wireless optical communication networks," Opt. Lett. 49, 1961-1964 (2024). [link]
(e) Robert
Gatdula, Siamak Abbaslou, Ming Lu, Aaron Stein, and Wei Jiang, "Guiding
light in bent waveguide superlattices with low crosstalk," Optica 6, 585-591 (2019). [link]
(a) Fuhao Yu†, Kangjian Di†, Wenjun Chen, Sen Yan,
Yuanyuan Yao, Silin Chen, Xuping Zhang, Yixin Zhang*, Ningmu Zou*, and Wei
Jiang*, "Time-Wavelength Multiplexed Photonic Neural Network Accelerator
for Distributed Acoustic Sensing Systems," Advanced Photonics 7, 026008
(2025). [link]
(b) Kangjian Di†, Fuhao Yu†, Silin Chen†, Jiashu Li, Andy Liu, Sen Shao, Zhiyuan Shi, Xuping Zhang, Yixin Zhang*, Wei Jiang,*, and Ningmu Zou*, Distillation-guided Optical Neural Networks with Reinforcement Learning-assisted Calibration, Optica 13, 1423-1435 (2026). [link]
(c) Lemeng Leng, Zhaobang Zeng, Guihan Wu, Zhongzhi Lin, Xiang Ji, Zhiyuan Shi, and Wei Jiang, “Phase calibration for integrated optical phased arrays using artificial neural network with resolved phase ambiguity,” Photonics Research 10, 347-356 (2022). [link]
3. Silicon modulators (Mach-Zehnder, photonic crystals, or micro-resonators)(a) L. Gu, W. Jiang*, X. Chen, L. Wang, and R. T. Chen*, “High-speed silicon photonic crystal waveguide modulator for low-voltage operation,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 90, 071105 (2007). [pdf]
(b) Zhaobang Zeng, Lemeng Leng, Peiyan Zhao, Chenbin Zhang, Ding Ding, Dun Mao, Tingyi Gu, and Wei Jiang, "High Extinction Ratio Low-voltage Dual-Racetrack Modulator for Low-Power DAC-less PAM4 Modulation," Opt. Lett. 47, 850-853 (2022) [link]
(c) Peiyan Zhao, Zhaobang Zeng, Nan Yang, Qianyi Gao, Bo Tang, Zhihua Li, Jiang Yan, and Wei Jiang, “Correlation between driving signal reflection on electrodes and performance variation of silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators,” Opt. Express 27, 35349-35361 (2019). [link]
(d) Fuhao Yu, Zhaobang Zeng, Xiang Ji, Kaifei Tang, Yu Xin, Guihan Wu, Dun Mao, Tingyi Gu, Qingzhong Huang and Wei Jiang, Silicon electro-optic modulators based on microscopic photonic structures: from principles to advanced modulation formats, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 56, 443002 (2023). [link]
(e) W. Jiang, L. Gu, X. Chen, R. T. Chen, “Photonic crystal waveguide modulators for silicon photonics: Device physics and some recent progress,” Solid State Electronics, vol. 51, 1278 (2007). [pdf]
4. Thermo-optic devices(a) Minfeng Jin, Guihan Wu, Xin Zhou, Qiuyang Jiang, Zhongzhi Lin, and Wei Jiang, "Parabolic MMI Coupler for 2 × 2 Silicon Optical Switch with Robustly High Extinction Ratio for Four Paths," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 35, 737-740 (2023). [link]
(b) Daojing
Zhai, Rui Zhu, Yogesh Jaluria and Wei Jiang, "Analysis of silicon
channel waveguide thermo-optic switches by the image charge method," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 31, 635-638 (2019). [link]
(c) M. Chahal, G. K. Celler, Y. Jaluria, and W. Jiang, "Thermo-optic characteristics and switching power limit of slow-light photonic crystal structures on a silicon-on-insulator platform," Opt. Express, vol. 20, 4225-4231 (2012). [link]
(d) L. Gu, W. Jiang, X. Chen, R. T. Chen, “Photonic Crystal Waveguide Based Silicon-on-Insulator Thermo-optic Mach Zehnder Interferometers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, 342 (2007). [pdf]
5. Photonic crystal physics: Slow light & superprism effects, localization(a) W. Jiang, R. T. Chen, and X. Lu, "Theory of light refraction at the surface of a photonic crystal," Physical Review B 71, 245115 (2005). [pdf]
(b) Weiwei Song, Ryan A. Integlia, and Wei Jiang, "Slow light loss due to roughness in photonic crystal waveguides: An analytic approach", Physical Review B vol. 82, 235306 (2010). [pdf]
(c) W. Jiang and R. T. Chen, "Multichannel optical add-drop process in symmetrical waveguide-resonator systems," Physical Review Letters, vol. 91, 213901 (2003). [pdf]
(d) W. Jiang and R. T. Chen, “Symmetry-induced singularities of the dispersion surface curvature and high sensitivities of a photonic crystal,” Physical Review B vol. 77, 075104 (2008). [pdf]
(e) Wei Jiang and Changde Gong, "Two Mechanisms, Three Stages of the Localization of Light in a Disordered Dielectric Structure with Photonic Band Gaps", Physical Review B, vol. 60, pp. 12015 (1999). [pdf]
(f) W. Jiang, and M. L. Povinelli, “Photonic crystals: physics, fabrication, and devices,” in A. Korkin & F. Rosei (editors) “Nanoelectronics and Photonics: From Atoms to Materials, Devices, and Architectures,” Springer, New York, 2008, pp. 353-426. [Amazon]
(full publication list)Patents
1. W. Jiang, Y. Sun, & R. T. Chen, "Add/drop module using two full-ball lenses," US Patent No. 7,006,728, issued February 2006. 2. W. Jiang and R. T. Chen, "Apparatus and method for switching, modulation and dynamic control of light transmission using photonic crystals," US Patent No. 7,421,179, issued September 2008. 3. W. Jiang, “Systems and methods for controlling and measuring modes possessing even and odd symmetry in a photonic crystal waveguide,” US Patent No. 9,086,583, issued July 21, 2015. 4. W. Jiang, "Parallel-coupled Dual Racetrack Silicon Micro-resonators," US Patent No. 9,239,477, issued January 2016. 5. W. Jiang, "Waveguide superlattices for high density photonics integration," US Patent No. 9,784,914, issued October 2017.