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P.P. Absil

P.P. Absil

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
45
Citations
8702
World Ranking
3532
National Ranking
76

Overview

P.P. Absil is affiliated with Imec in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a specialized focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans several subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to photonic and optical devices, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, and optical network technologies. Additional areas of study include advanced photonic communication systems, semiconductor materials and devices, neural networks and reservoir computing, and photorefractive and nonlinear optics.

Key recent publications by P.P. Absil include the following:

  • "56 Gb/s NRZ O-Band Hybrid BiCMOS-Silicon Photonics Receiver Using Ge/si Avalanche Photodiode," 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Low-Loss Silicon Directional Coupler With Arbitrary Coupling Ratios for Broadband Wavelength Operation Based on Bent Waveguides," 2024, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Integrated Photonics and Electronics for Optical Transceivers Supporting AI/ML Applications," 2025, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • "Low-Loss and Low-Power Silicon Ring Based WDM 32×100 GHz Filter Enabled by a Novel Bend Design," 2024, Laser & Photonics Review
  • "A high-speed heterogeneous lithium tantalate silicon photonics platform," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with P.P. Absil include:

  • Joris Van Campenhout
  • Filippo Ferraro
  • Dieter Bode
  • Peter Verheyen
  • Rafal Magdziak

Publication venues where Absil has regularly appeared include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Best Publications

  • High-efficiency fiber-to-chip grating couplers realized using an advanced CMOS-compatible Silicon-On-Insulator platform

    D. Vermeulen;S. Selvaraja;P. Verheyen;G. Lepage

  • Wavelength conversion in GaAs micro-ring resonators.

    P. P. Absil;J. V. Hryniewicz;B. E. Little;P. S. Cho

  • Room-temperature InP distributed feedback laser array directly grown on silicon

    Zhechao Wang;Bin Tian;Marianna Pantouvaki;Weiming Guo

  • Optical signal processing using nonlinear semiconductor microring resonators

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  • Ultra low-EOT (5 Å) gate-first and gate-last high performance CMOS achieved by gate-electrode optimization

    L.-A. Ragnarsson;Z. Li;J. Tseng;T. Schram

  • Active Components for 50 Gb/s NRZ-OOK Optical Interconnects in a Silicon Photonics Platform

    M. Pantouvaki;S. A. Srinivasan;Y. Ban;P. De Heyn

  • −1 V bias 67 GHz bandwidth Si-contacted germanium waveguide p-i-n photodetector for optical links at 56 Gbps and beyond

    Hongtao Chen;P Verheyen;P De Heyn;G Lepage

  • Modulation of the Ni FUSI workfunction by Yb doping: from midgap to n-type band-edge

    H.Y. Yu;J.D. Chen;M.F. Li;S.J. Lee

  • Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based FMCW Coherent LiDAR

    Aude Martin;Delphin Dodane;Luc Leviandier;Daniel Dolfi

  • Broadband 10 Gb/s operation of graphene electro-absorption modulator on silicon

    Yingtao Hu;Marianna Pantouvaki;Joris Van Campenhout;Steven Brems

  • 56 Gb/s Germanium Waveguide Electro-Absorption Modulator

    Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan;Marianna Pantouvaki;Shashank Gupta;Hong Tao Chen

  • Parallel-cascaded semiconductor microring resonators for high-order and wide-FSR filters

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  • Benchmarking SOI and bulk FinFET alternatives for PLANAR CMOS scaling succession

    T. Chiarella;L. Witters;A. Mercha;C. Kerner

  • Performance tradeoff between lateral and interdigitated doping patterns for high speed carrier-depletion based silicon modulators

    Hui Yu;Marianna Pantouvaki;Joris Van Campenhout;Dietmar Korn

  • Open-Access Silicon Photonics Platforms in Europe

    Abdul Rahim;Jeroen Goyvaerts;Bertrand Szelag;Jean-Marc Fedeli

  • Silicon photonics integrated circuits: a manufacturing platform for high density, low power optical I/O's.

    Philippe P. Absil;Peter Verheyen;Peter De Heyn;Marianna Pantouvaki

  • Comparison of heater architectures for thermal control of silicon photonic circuits

    Adil Masood;Marianna Pantouvaki;Guy Lepage;Peter Verheyen

  • Vertically coupled GaInAsP--InP microring resonators.

    R. Grover;P. P. Absil;V. Van;J. V. Hryniewicz

  • Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) IQ modulator using the linear electro-optic effect for transmitting 16QAM at 112 Gbit/s

    Dietmar Korn;Robert Palmer;Hui Yu;Philipp C. Schindler

  • High-Responsivity Low-Voltage 28-Gb/s Ge p-i-n Photodetector With Silicon Contacts

    Hong Tao Chen;Peter Verheyen;Peter De Heyn;Guy Lepage

  • 100-Gbps RZ Data Reception in 67-GHz Si-Contacted Germanium Waveguide p-i-n Photodetectors

    Hongtao Chen;M. Galili;P. Verheyen;P. De Heyn

  • Highly uniform and low-loss passive silicon photonics devices using a 300mm CMOS platform

    Shankar Kumar Selvaraja;Peter De Heyn;Gustaf Winroth;Patrick Ong

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Yu
Hui Yu Zhejiang University
Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts Ghent University
Dries Van Thourhout
Dries Van Thourhout Ghent University
Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University

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