Advanced GeSi components for next-generation silicon photonics applications

Project Information

SIPHO-G

Grant agreement ID: 101017194

DOI

10.3030/101017194

Project closed

EC signature date 15 December 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 5 004 207,50

EU contribution

€ 4 996 207,50

Coordinated by

INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM
Belgium

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Publications

Conference proceedings (27)

Optical Linear Operator with Optimal Fidelity

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis,George Giamougiannis, Angelina Totovic,Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, David Lazovsky, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 IEEE Phot. Conference, 2022
Publisher: IEEE

50 Gbps vertical separate absorption charge multiplication Ge/Si avalanche waveguide photodetectors integrated in a 300-mm Si photonics platform

Author(s): Tsiara, Artemisia, Berciano, Mathias, Yudistira, Didit, Loo, Roger, Musibau, Solomon, Verheyen, Peter, Ferraro, Filippo, Ban, Yoojin, Croes, Kristof, Van Campenhout, Joris
Published in: ECOC 2023, 2023
Publisher: IET

60Gb/s waveguide-coupled O-band GeSi quantum-confined Stark effect electro-absorption modulator

Author(s): S. A. Srinivasan, C. Porret, S. Balakrishnan, Y. Ban, R. Loo, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, M. Pantouvaki
Published in: 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021
Publisher: IEEE Xplore

A 4×4 Si3N4 generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometer for variable power splitting applications

Author(s): Stefanos Kovaios, Konstantinos Fotiadis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Christos Pappas, Davide Sacchetto, Michael Zervas, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 SPIE OPTO PW, 2023
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2649033

Fidelity-Restorable Universal Linear Optics and Neuromorphic Photonics

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Angelina Totovic, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022
Publisher: OPTICA

On-Chip Universal Linear Optics using a 4x4 Silicon Photonic Coherent Crossbar

Author(s): George Giamougiannis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Nikos Bamiedakis, David Lazovsky, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference, 2023
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA
DOI: 10.23919/ofc49934.2023.10117452

Strong phase modulation in integrated O-band GeSi-QCSE waveguide modulators

Author(s): Chih-Kuo Neil Tseng, Ahmed Kandeel, Mathias Berciano, Dharmander Malik, Hakim Kobbi, Didit Yudistira, Dries Van Thourhout, Maumita Chakrabarti, Dimitrios Velenis, Peter Verheyen, Yoojin Ban, Filippo Ferraro, Joris Van Campenhout
Published in: CLEO 2024, 2024, Page(s) SW4R.1
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sw4r.1

Sub-pJ/MAC Silicon Photonic GeMM for Optical NeuralNetworks using a Time-Space Multiplexed Coherent Xbar

Author(s): S. Kovaios, I. Roumpos, A. Tsakyridis, G. Giamougiannis, M. Moralis- Pegios, M. Berciano, F. Ferraro, D. Bode, A. Srinivasan, M. Pantouvaki N. Pleros
Published in: 2024 OFC Conference, 2024
Publisher: IEEE/OSA

Adaptive all-optical sigmoid activation functions for Photonic Neural Networks using Fabry-Perot laser diodes under optical injection

Author(s): Petar Atanasijević, Christos Pappas, Mladen Banović, Jasna Crnjanski, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Marko Krstić, Peđa Mihailović, Slobodan Petričević, Nikos Pleros, Dejan Gvozdić
Published in: 2024 OFC Conference, 2024
Publisher: IEEE/OSA

Epitaxial Ge virtual substrates versus Ge-on-Nothing: Impact of Si in-diffusion and dislocation density on excess carrier lifetime

Author(s): Loo, Roger, Porret, Clément, Yudistira, Didit, Depauw, Valerie, Han, Han, Vecchio, Emma, Pantouvaki, Marianna, Van Campenhout, Joris
Published in: GADEST-19, 2024
Publisher: IHP

DDOS attack identification via a silicon photonic Deep Neural Network with 50 GHz input and weight update

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina Totovic, George Dabos, Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Dimitris Syrivelis, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Elad Mentovich, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference, 2023
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA
DOI: 10.23919/ofc49934.2023.10117359

Optics-informed Neural Networks: Bridging Deep Learningwith Photonic Accelerators

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, A. Tsakyridis, C. Pappas, T. Moschos, G. Giamougiannis, S. Kovaios, I. Roumpos1, I. Roumpos, M. Kirtas, N. Passalis, A. Tefas and N. Pleros
Published in: 2024 OFC Conference, 2024
Publisher: IEEE/OSA

Programmable tanh- and ReLU-like Optoelectronic Activation Functions for Neuromorphic Photonic Circuits

Author(s): Christos Pappas, Stefanos Kovaios, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Gertjan Coudyzer, Xin Yin, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference, 2023
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA
DOI: 10.23919/ofc49934.2023.10116470

Silicon Photonic Neuromorphic Computing with 16 GHz Input Data and Weight Update Line Rates

Author(s): A. Tsakyridis, G. Giamougiannis, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, A. Totovic, G. Dabos, N. Passalis, M. Kirtas, A. Tefas, M. Moralis-Pegios, N. Pleros
Published in: 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA

Photonic Neuromorphic Computing: Architectures, Technologies, and Training Models

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, A. Totovic, A. Tsakyridis, G. Giamougiannis, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, G. Dabos, N. Passalis, M. Kirtas, A. Tefas, N. Pleros
Published in: 2022 Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), 2022
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA

Epitaxial Ge Virtual Substrates and Ge-on-Nothing on Si: Comparison of Material Properties

Author(s): Roger Loo, Clément Porret, Valérie Depauw, Han Han, Emma Vecchio, Mathias Berciano, Didit Yudistira, Marianna Pantouvaki, and Joris Van Campenhout
Published in: Extended Abstracts Symposium on Electron Device Interface Technology, 2022, Page(s) 23-28, ISBN 978-4-86348-790-1
Publisher: EDIT

Compact, low loss, and high-speed GeSi quantum-confined stark-effect electro-absorption modulator

Author(s): Ahmed Kandeel, Gaspard Hiblot, Yosuke Shimura, Clement Porret, Didit Yudistira, Javad Rahimi Vaskasi, Alexey Milenin, Chih-Kuo Neil Tseng, Mathias Berciano, Dharmander Malik, Dries Van Thourhout, Maumita Chakrabarti, Dimitrios Velenis, Peter Verheyen, Yoojin Ban, Filippo Ferraro, Joris Van Campenhout
Published in: CLEO 2024, 2024, Page(s) SM2I.6
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sm2i.6

High-speed analog photonic computing with tiled matrix multiplication and dynamic precision capabilities for DNNs

Author(s): George Giamougiannis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Christos Pappas, Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, David Lazovsky, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2022
Publisher: IEEE/OPTICA

Ge/Si Vertical Separate Absorption Charge Multiplication (VSACM) Avalanche Photo Diodes (APDs): Epitaxial Growth and Impact of Post-Epi Anneal on Excess Carrier Lifetime

Author(s): Loo, Roger, Porret, Clément, Han, Han, Berciano, Mathias, Yudistira, Didit, Ferraro, Filippo, Verheyen, Peter, Van Campenhout, Joris
Published in: 3rd joint ICSI/ISTDM, 2024
Publisher: ICSI/ISTDM

Compute with Light: Architectures, Technologies and Training Models for Neuromorphic Photonic Circuits

Author(s): N. Pleros, M. Moralis-Pegios, A. Totovic, G. Dabos, A. Tsakyridis, G. Giamougiannis, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, N. Passalis, M. Kirtas, A. Tefas
Published in: 2021 European Conference on Opitcal Communications (ECOC), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc52684.2021.9606046

TWDM Coherent Silicon Photonic Linear Circuits for Photonic Tensor Processors

Author(s): S Kovaios, I Roumpos, A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios, D Lazovsky, K Vyrsokinos, N Pleros
Published in: ECOC 2024; 50th European Conference on Optical Communication, Issue VDE, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

An 8-Lane 58 Gb/s/lane 0.66 pJ/bit Modulator Driver Electrical-IC for a 3-D Integrated Silicon Photonic Transmitter in 22 nm FD-SOI Process

Author(s): Laszlo Szilagyi, Bartek J. Pawlak, Luc Pauwels, Pieter Bex, Chiara Marchese, Guy Lepage, Yoojin Ban, Dimitrios Velenis, Nikos Argyris, Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Konstantinos Tokas, Paraskevas Bakopoulos
Published in: 2025 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2025, Page(s) 267-270
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/rfic61188.2025.11082778

Optics-informed neural networks towards accelerating linear operations

Author(s): A. Tsakyridis, M. Moralis-Pegios, G. Giamougiannis, C. Pappas, S. Kovaios, T. Moschos, I. Roumpos, N. Pleros
Published in: 2024 SPIE Photonics WEST, 2024
Publisher: SPIE

Low dark current and high responsivity Si-contacted Ge-on-Si avalanche photodetectors in a 300-mm Si photonics platform

Author(s): Berciano, Mathias, Marchese, Chiara, Kobbi, Hakim, Magdziak, Rafal, Vaskasi, Javad Rahimi, Verheyen, Peter, Loo, Roger, Ferraro, Ferraro, Ban, Yoojin, Chakrabarti, Maumita, Velenis, Dimitrios, Van Campenhout, Joris
Published in: ECOC 2023, 2023
Publisher: IET

A Time-Space-Wavelength Multiplexed AWGR-based Photonic Tensor Core using WDM SiGe EAM array chiplets

Author(s): A. Prapas, M. Moralis-Pegios, A. Tsakyridis, S. Kovaios, O. Asimopoulos, C. Pappas, T. Moschos, M. Kirtas, N. Passalis, K. Vyrsokinos, A. Tefas, N. Pleros
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025, Page(s) W4D.2
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2025.w4d.2

Optics-informed Deep Learning over Silicon Photonic Hardware

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, A. Tsakyridis, G. Giamougiannis, C. Pappas, S. Kovaios, T. Moschos, I. Roumpos, N. Pleros
Published in: 2023 SPIE PhotoneX Conference, 2023
Publisher: SPIE digital library
DOI: 10.1117/12.3008426

Silicon Integrated Photonic-Electronic Multiply-Accumulate Neurons

Author(s): I. Roumpos, L. De Marinis, P. S. Kincaid, E. Paolini, S. Kovaios, A. Tsakyridis, M. Moralis-Pegios, M. Berciano, F. Ferraro, D. Bode, A. Srinivasan, M. Pantouvaki, G. Contestabile, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: CLEO 2024, 2024, Page(s) SM3M.3
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sm3m.3

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Universal Linear Optics for Ultra-Fast Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Towards fj/MAC and TMAC/sec/mm2 Engines

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina R Totovic, Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, David Lazovsky, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2022, ISSN 1558-4542
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2022.3219288

A Coherent Photonic Crossbar for Scalable Universal Linear Optics

Author(s): G. Giamougiannis, A. Tsakyridis, Y. Ma, A. Totovic, M. Moralis-Pegios, D. Lazovsky, N. Pleros
Published in: 2023 IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2023.3234689

Scaling Photonic Neural Networks: A Silicon Photonic GeMM Leveraging a Time-space Multiplexed Xbar

Author(s): Stefanos Kovaios, Ioannis Roumpos, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Giamougiannis, Mathias Berciano, Filippo Ferraro, Dieter Bode, Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Marianna Pantouvaki, Nikos Pleros, Apostolos Tsakyridis
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 42, 2024, Page(s) 7825-7833, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3415436

Generalized Mach Zehnder Interferometers Integrated on Si3N4 Waveguide Platform

Author(s): Stefanos Kovaios, Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Konstantinos Fotiadis, Davide Sacchetto, Michael Zervas, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2023, ISSN 1558-4542
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2023.3281411.

Programmable Tanh-, ELU-, Sigmoid-, and Sin-based Nonlinear Activation Functions for Neuromorphic Photonics

Author(s): C Pappas, S Kovaios, M Moralis-Pegios, A Tsakyridis, G Giamougiannis, M Kirtas, J Van Kerrebrouck, G Coudyzer, X Yin, N Passalis, A Tefas, N Pleros
Published in: 2023 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (JSTQE), 2023, ISSN 1558-4542
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2023.3277118

Neuromorphic silicon photonics with 50 GHz tiled matrix multiplication for deep-learning applications

Author(s): George Giamougiannis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina R Totovic, George Dabos, Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Dimitris Syrivelis, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Elad Mentovich, David Lazovsky, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2023 Advanced Photonics, 2023, ISSN 1996-756X
Publisher: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.5.1.016004

RF Equivalent Circuit Model for GeSi Quantum Confined Stark Effect Electro-Absorption Modulators

Author(s): Ahmed Kandeel, Minkyu Kim, Amir Shahin, Peter De Heyn, Chih-Kuo Neil Tseng, Javad Rahimi Vaskasi, Yosuke Shimura, Maumita Chakrabarti, Dimitrios Velenis, Dries Van Thourhout, Filippo Ferraro, Yoojin Ban, Joris Van Campenhout
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 421-424, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2025.3549943

64 Gb/s O-Band GeSi Quantum-Confined Stark Effect Electro-Absorption Modulators Integrated in a 300 mm Silicon Photonics Platform

Author(s): Ahmed Kandeel, Gaspard Hiblot, Clement Porret, Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Yosuke Shimura, Roger Loo, Mathias Berciano, Chih-Kuo Neil Tseng, Dharmander Malik, Alexey Milenin, Didit Yudistira, Sadhishkumar Balakrishnan, Amir Shahin, Javad Rahimi Vaskasi, Peter Verheyen, Marianna Pantouvaki, Maumita Chakrabarti, Dimitrios Velenis, Filippo Ferraro, Yoojin Ban, Dries Van Thourhout, Joris Van Campenh
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 2794-2802, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3505957

Fidelity Restorable Universal Linear Optics

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Angelina Totovic, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 Advanced Photonics Research, 2022, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202200001

Photonic neural networks and optics-informed deep learning fundamentals

Author(s): Apostolos Tsakyridis ; Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios; George Giamougiannis ; Manos Kirtas ; Nikolaos Passalis ; Anastasios Tefas; Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2024 APL Photonics, 2024, ISSN 1551-7616
Publisher: AIP Publishing

Analog nanophotonic computing going practical: silicon photonic deep learning engines for tiled optical matrix multiplication with dynamic precision

Author(s): G. Giamougiannis, A. Tsakyridis, M. Moralis-Pegios, C. Pappas, M. Kirtas, N. Passalis, D. Lazovsky, A. Tefas, N. Pleros
Published in: 2023 Nanophotonics, 2023, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0423

Silicon integrated photonic-electronic neuron for noise-resilient deep learning

Author(s): Ioannis Roumpos, Lorenzo De Marinis, Stefanos Kovaios, Peter Seigo Kincaid, Emilio Paolini, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Mathias Berciano, Filippo Ferraro, Dieter Bode, Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Marianna Pantouvaki, Nicola Andriolli, Giampiero Contestabile, Nikos Pleros, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 32, 2024, Page(s) 34264, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.532306

Programmable Tanh- and ELU-Based Photonic Neurons in Optics-Informed Neural Networks

Author(s): Stefanos Kovaios, Christos Pappas, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Apostolos Tsakyridis, George Giamougiannis, Manos Kirtas, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Gertjan Coudyzer, Xin Yin, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2024 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2024, ISSN 1558-2213
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2024.3366711

Perfect linear optics using silicon photonics

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Giamougiannis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, David Lazovsky, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49768-y

Universal Linear Optics Revisited: New Perspectives for Neuromorphic Computing with Silicon Photonics

Author(s): George Giamougiannis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Angelina R Totovic, Manos Kirtas, Nikolaos Passalis, David Lazovsky, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2022 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2022, ISSN 1558-4542
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2022.3228318