Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

[HTML][HTML] Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Coupling strategies for silicon photonics integrated chips

R Marchetti, C Lacava, L Carroll, K Gradkowski… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid and heterogeneous photonic integration

P Kaur, A Boes, G Ren, TG Nguyen, G Roelkens… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Increasing demand for every faster information throughput is driving the emergence of
integrated photonic technology. The traditional silicon platform used for integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Tutorial on narrow linewidth tunable semiconductor lasers using Si/III-V heterogeneous integration

MA Tran, D Huang, JE Bowers - APL photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Narrow linewidth lasers have many applications, such as higher order coherent
communications, optical sensing, and metrology. While semiconductor lasers are typically …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Wave-front transformation with gradient metasurfaces

N Mohammadi Estakhri, A Alu - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Relying on abrupt phase discontinuities, metasurfaces characterized by a transversely
inhomogeneous surface impedance profile have been recently explored as an ultrathin …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond 30% conversion efficiency in silicon solar cells: a numerical demonstration

S Bhattacharya, S John - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We demonstrate through precise numerical simulations the possibility of flexible, thin-film
solar cells, consisting of crystalline silicon, to achieve power conversion efficiency of 31 …

Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

[HTML][HTML] A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …