Emerging applications in quantum information, microscopy, biosensing, depth sensing, and
augmented reality demand miniaturized components in the visible (VIS) and near-infrared …

We report a LiDAR transmitter incorporating both a hybrid-integrated tunable external cavity
laser and a high-resolution 2-D optical phased array beam-steerer. Widely tunable single …

The on-chip optical power splitter is a common and important device in photonic integrated
circuits (PICs). To achieve a low insertion loss and high uniformity while splitting the guided …

Lidar, a technology at the heart of autonomous driving and robotic mobility, performs 3D
imaging of a complex scene by measuring the time of flight of returning light pulses. Many …

In recent years, using silicon-based waveguide grating antennas in optical phased array has
become a research focus. To date, this technique has not been widely implemented in …

Cascaded metasurfaces can exhibit powerful dynamic light manipulation by mechanically
tuning the far‐field interactions in the layers. However, in most current designs, the …

Optical techniques, such as optogenetic stimulation and functional fluorescence imaging,
have been revolutionary for neuroscience by enabling neural circuit analysis with cell-type …

An on-chip optical phased array (OPA) is considered as a promising solution for next
generation solid-state beam steering. However, most of the reported OPAs suffer from low …

The current commercially viable light detection and ranging systems demand continuous,
full-scene, and dynamic two-dimensional point scanning, while featuring large aperture size …

Optical phased array (OPA) based on silicon photonics is considered as a promising
candidate for realizing solid-state beam steering. However, the high refractive index contrast …