Research | UND GLIDE Lab

On-Chip Photonic AI Accelerator

Biological neuron and its photonic counterpart — synapse, dendrites, soma, and axon mapped to on-chip components.

Integrated photonic time-multiplexed reservoir computing architecture at 1550 nm with MZM nonlinear node and delay-line feedback.

NRMSE vs. number of virtual nodes on the NARMA-10 benchmark — reservoir+LR reaches 0.21, well below the linear baseline.

Word error rate on spoken digit recognition (FSDD) drops to 1.5% — a six-fold improvement over the linear baseline.

Related Publications

MJ Hossain, "Towards Foundry-Compatible Photonic Neuromorphic Computing: Architecture, Advances, and Implementation Challenges", IEEE RAPID Conference, 2026.
MS Hossain, A Al Arafat, AS Rakin, MJ Hossain, "Integrated Photonic Time-Multiplexed Reservoir Computing for Time Series Prediction", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2026.

Photonic Quantum Computing

Quantum random number generation.

Related Publications

Publications to be added.

On-Chip LiDAR

Silicon-on-insulator optical phased array with 48 linearly apodized grating antennas for on-chip LiDAR.

3D radiation pattern, single-antenna transmission over 1500–1700 nm, and azimuth/elevation beam cuts.

Continuous beam steering over 62° field of view at 1550 nm with sidelobe suppression exceeding 85 dB.

Main-lobe angle vs. voltage — electrical steering across azimuth and elevation with tunable phase shifters.

Related Publications

MS Hossain, MJ Hossain, "Silicon Photonic Optical Phased Array with Apodized Grating Antennas for On-Chip LiDAR", IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2026.

Signal Processing / Manipulation using PIC

1×13 channel Si₃N₄ arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) fabricated on a 300 mm silicon photonics platform.

AWG operating principle — wavelength-dependent path length differences separate input channels at the output focal plane.

Measured transmission across C+L bands (1500–1620 nm) — 0.92 dB insertion loss, –37.5 dB crosstalk, 20 nm FSR.

4-bit photonic analog-to-digital converter — cascaded MZI arms with distinct lengths give direct binary encoding.

Related Publications

MS Hossain, MJ Hossain, "4-bit Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter on a 300 mm Silicon Photonics Platform", IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2026.
MJ Hossain, JA Mann, A Dikshit, J Wallner, GJ Leake, CV Baiocco, "Low-Loss, Low-Crosstalk Arrayed Waveguide Grating on a 300 mm Silicon Photonics Platform", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 38, no. 10, 15 May 2026.

Integrated Photonics Devices

Photonic wire bonding for fiber array integration

Photonic wire bonding (PWB) for fiber array integration.

Experimental and simulated losses of PWB samples

Experimental and simulated losses of the PWB samples.

Recycle Carrier Mach-Zehnder Modulator on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate.

Bilayer Inverse Taper on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate.

Inverse taper characteristics: (a) coupling loss vs. taper input width w, (b) coupling loss vs. taper length, (c) coupling loss vs. taper length ratio γ, and (d) coupling loss vs. exponent m.

Related Publications

M. O. F. Rasel, Y. Kabra, P. Yao, M. J. Hossain, S. Shi, T. Creazzo, M. R. Konkol, C. J. Cullen, V. Deenadayalan, C. Newkirk, M. Ciminelli, S. Preble, and D. W. Prather, "Characterization Studies of Photonic Wire Bonding for Fiber Array Integration," Optics Express, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 11513, Mar. 2026.
X. Zhu, J. Hossain, J. Arnold, J. Zhang, R. Xue, C. Cullen, S. Shi, P. Yao, T. Creazzo, J. Murakowski, and D. Prather, "Simulation and Design of Recycle Carrier Mach-Zehnder Modulator on Thin Film Lithium Niobate," Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXXIV, p. 11, Mar. 2026.
R. Xue, J. Hossain, J. Arnold, J. Zhang, X. Zhu, M. Moller de Freitas, C. J. Cullen, S. Shi, P. Yao, T. Creazzo, and D. W. Prather, "Efficient Mode Conversion at 1064 nm via Bilayer Inverse Taper on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate," arXiv:2608.00833 [physics.optics], Aug. 2026.