Integrated metamaterials are redefining the capabilities of silicon photonic chips. In providing lithographic control over dielectric permittivity, dispersion and anisotropy, they are …
Subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials have garnered a great interest for their singular capability to shape the material properties and the propagation of light, allowing the …
We present perfectly vertical grating couplers for the 220 nm silicon-on-insulator platform incorporating subwavelength metamaterials to increase the minimum feature sizes and …
Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …
Adiabatic waveguide taper is one of the fundamental building blocks in photonic integrated circuits, but it is challenging to achieve high efficiency and compact size simultaneously …
Bragg gratings are fundamental building blocks for integrated photonic circuits. In the high- index contrast silicon-on-insulator material platform, it is challenging to accurately control the …
The availability of low-loss optical interfaces to couple light between standard optical fibers and high-index-contrast silicon waveguides is essential for the development of chip …
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …
Subwavelength grating (SWG) structures are an essential tool in silicon photonics, enabling the synthesis of metamaterials with a controllable refractive index. Here we propose, for the …