The design and fabrication of an ultracompact silicon-on-insulator polarization converter is
reported. The polarization conversion with an extinction ratio of 16 dB is achieved for a …

Mode volume overlap factor is one of the parameters determining the sensitivity of a sensor.
In past decades, many approaches have been proposed to increase the mode volume …

Mode-division multiplexing is a promising solution to enhance the capacity of current
photonic integrated circuits and thereby meet the growing demands of telecom and datacom …

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 high index contrast of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform allows the realization of
ultra-compact photonic circuits. However, this high contrast hinders the implementation of …

Future technologies underpinning high-performance optical communications, ultrafast
computations and compact biosensing will rely on densely packed reconfigurable optical …

Abstract Silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguides become an appealing choice to realize complex
photonic integrated circuits for applications in telecom/datacom transceivers, sensing, and …

Spectral filters are important building blocks for many applications in integrated photonics,
including datacom and telecom, optical signal processing and astrophotonics. Sidewall …

Dielectric nanoantennas represent a new branch of nanophotonics that allows efficient
control of light scattering at nanoscale. Coupled nanoantennas can guide light on a chip …

We present a tool to aid the design of periodical structures, such as subwavelength grating
(SWG) structures. It is based on the Fourier Eigenmode Expansion Method and includes the …