arxivphysics.opticscs.CVeess.IV2026-06-26
Enhancing Co-packaging Optics Enabled Silicon Photonics Security Assurance Hardware Fingerprinting
Liton Kumar Biswas, M Shafkat M Khan, Himanandhan Reddy Kottur, Hao Wang, Hamed Dalir, Navid Asadizanjani
Silicon photonics enables integration of optical components using standard semiconductor processes, greatly improving data communication bandwidth and energy efficiency. However, photonics integrated circuits (PICs) face unique security challenges, such as counterfeit or tamperin…