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Joyce K. S. Poon

Joyce K. S. Poon

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
7258
World Ranking
4465
National Ranking
209

Overview

Joyce K. S. Poon is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Neuroscience. Their research covers multiple subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's body of work primarily focuses on Photonic and Optical Devices, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Optical Network Technologies, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies.

Recent publications by Joyce K. S. Poon include:

  • "Programmable photonic circuits" (2020, Nature)
  • "Monolithically integrated, broadband, high-efficiency silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors in a visible-light integrated photonics platform" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Power-efficient silicon nitride thermo-optic phase shifters for visible light" (2021, Optics Express)
  • "Silicon photonics for the visible and near-infrared spectrum" (2023, Advances in Optics and Photonics)
  • "Integrated Hybrid VO2-Silicon Optical Memory" (2022, ACS Photonics)

Joyce K. S. Poon has coauthored frequently with Wesley D. Sacher, Xianshu Luo, Fu-Der Chen, Andrei Stalmashonak, and Guo-Qiang Lo.

The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Express
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurophotonics

Best Publications

  • Programmable photonic circuits.

    Wim Bogaerts;Daniel Pérez;José Capmany;David A. B. Miller

  • Matrix analysis of microring coupled-resonator optical waveguides

    Joyce K. S. Poon;Jacob Scheuer;Shayan Mookherjea;George T. Paloczi

  • Designing coupled-resonator optical waveguide delay lines

    Joyce K. S. Poon;Jacob Scheuer;Yong Xu;Amnon Yariv

  • Transmission and group delay of microring coupled-resonator optical waveguides.

    Joyce K. S. Poon;Lin Zhu;Guy A. DeRose;Amnon Yariv

  • Polarization rotator-splitters in standard active silicon photonics platforms.

    Wesley D Sacher;Tymon Barwicz;Benjamin J F Taylor;Joyce K S Poon

  • Multilayer Silicon Nitride-on-Silicon Integrated Photonic Platforms and Devices

    Wesley D. Sacher;Ying Huang;Guo-Qiang Lo;Joyce K. S. Poon

  • Dynamics of microring resonator modulators.

    Wesley D. Sacher;Joyce K. S. Poon

  • Wide bandwidth and high coupling efficiency Si3N4-on-SOI dual-level grating coupler.

    Wesley D Sacher;Ying Huang;Liang Ding;Benjamin J F Taylor

  • Silicon photonic transmitter for polarization-encoded quantum key distribution

    Chaoxuan Ma;Wesley D. Sacher;Zhiyuan Tang;Jared C. Mikkelsen

  • Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides: Toward the Slowing and Storage of Light

    Jacob Scheuer;George T. Paloczi;Joyce K. S. Poon;Amnon Yariv

  • Low-voltage broadband hybrid plasmonic-vanadium dioxide switches

    Arash Joushaghani;Brett A. Kruger;Suzanne Paradis;David Alain

  • Monolithically Integrated Multilayer Silicon Nitride-on-Silicon Waveguide Platforms for 3-D Photonic Circuits and Devices

    Wesley D. Sacher;Jared C. Mikkelsen;Ying Huang;Jason C. C. Mak

  • Sub-volt broadband hybrid plasmonic-vanadium dioxide switches

    Arash Joushaghani;Brett A. Kruger;Suzanne Paradis;David Alain

  • Wavelength-size hybrid Si-VO(2) waveguide electroabsorption optical switches and photodetectors.

    Arash Joushaghani;Junho Jeong;Suzanne Paradis;David Alain

  • Polarization rotator-splitters and controllers in a Si3N4-on-SOI integrated photonics platform.

    Wesley D. Sacher;Ying Huang;Liang Ding;Tymon Barwicz

  • Wavelength-selective reflector based on a circular array of coupled microring resonators

    J.K.S. Poon;J. Scheuer;A. Yariv

  • Tri-layer silicon nitride-on-silicon photonic platform for ultra-low-loss crossings and interlayer transitions.

    Wesley D Sacher;Jared C Mikkelsen;Patrick Dumais;Jia Jiang

  • Visible-light silicon nitride waveguide devices and implantable neurophotonic probes on thinned 200 mm silicon wafers.

    Wesley D. Sacher;Xianshu Luo;Yisu Yang;Fu-Der Chen

  • Coupling modulation of microrings at rates beyond the linewidth limit

    W. D. Sacher;W. M. J. Green;S. Assefa;T. Barwicz

  • Design of electrically driven hybrid vanadium dioxide (VO2) plasmonic switches.

    Brett A. Kruger;Arash Joushaghani;Joyce K. S. Poon

  • Binary particle swarm optimized 2 × 2 power splitters in a standard foundry silicon photonic platform

    Jason C. C. Mak;Constantine Sideris;Junho Jeong;Ali Hajimiri

  • Voltage-Controlled Switching and Thermal Effects in VO2 Nano-Gap Junctions

    Arash Joushaghani;Junho Jeong;Suzanne Paradis;David Alain

Frequent Co-Authors

Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv California Institute of Technology
Xianshu Luo
Xianshu Luo Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Tymon Barwicz
Tymon Barwicz X, the moonshot factory
Guo-Qiang Lo
Guo-Qiang Lo Global Foundries
Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology
Yurii A. Vlasov
Yurii A. Vlasov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solomon Assefa
Solomon Assefa IBM (United States)
Michael L. Roukes
Michael L. Roukes California Institute of Technology
William M. J. Green
William M. J. Green IBM (United States)
Stuart S. P. Parkin
Stuart S. P. Parkin Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

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