Breakthrough in silicon photonics technology in telecommunications, biosensing, and gas sensing

M Shahbaz, MA Butt, R Piramidowicz - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has been an area of active research and development. Researchers have
been working on enhancing the integration density and intricacy of silicon photonic circuits …

Silicon Photonic Filters: A Pathway from Basics to Applications

N Saha, G Brunetti, A di Toma… - Advanced Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics has found a profound place among emerging technologies in the past few
decades due to several advantages. Due to a series of breakthroughs and increased …

An optimization framework for silicon photonic evanescent-field biosensors using sub-wavelength gratings

LS Puumala, SM Grist, K Wickremasinghe… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonic (SiP) evanescent-field biosensors aim to combine the information-rich
readouts offered by lab-scale diagnostics, at a significantly lower cost, and with the …

Effects of curvature on flexible Bragg Grating in off-axis core: Theory and experiment

F Anelli, A Annunziato, M Godfrey… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A high curvature flexible Bragg grating, in planar technology, is designed, fabricated and
experimentally characterized by employing silica glass. The curvature sensing mechanism …

Tunable narrow band add-drop filter design based on apodized long period waveguide grating assisted co-directional coupler

N Saha, G Brunetti, MN Armenise, C Ciminelli - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Tunable add/drop filter based optical interconnects are an integral part of data centers as
well as optical communications. Although add/drop filters based on ring resonators and …

Peculiarities of the Resonant Response of a Subwavelength Double Grating with Optical PT-Symmetry

IR Krylov, UV Prokhorova, VA Stolyarov, EA Efremova… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we study the features of the resonant response of a system consisting of two
subwavelength one-dimensional periodic structures, considering the dispersion of the …

A Multi-Channel Frequency Router Based on an Optimization Algorithm and Dispersion Engineering

H Yuan, N Zhang, H Zhang, C Lu - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrated frequency routers, which can guide light with different frequencies to different
output ports, are an important kind of nanophotonic device. However, frequency routers with …

Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Optical Switch Based on Guided-Mode Resonances in Photonic Crystals

AU Rehman, Y Khan, M Irfan, S Choudri, SN Khonina… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical switching is an essential part of photonic integrated circuits and the focus of research
at the moment. In this research, an optical switch design working on the phenomenon of …

2× 2 compact silicon waveguide-based optical logic functions at 1.55 μm

A Kotb, KE Zoiros - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Compact waveguide crossing is a fundamental component of optoelectronic fusion chip
solutions due to its orders-of-magnitude smaller footprint than that of conventional photonic …

Function-versatile thermo-optic switch using silicon nitride waveguide in polymer

T Chen, Z Ding, Z Dang, X Jiang, Z Zhang - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
A function-versatile thermo-optic switch is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using
silicon nitride waveguides embedded in polymer cladding. The device consists of a 1× 2 …