Thermo-optic phase shifters based on silicon-on-insulator platform: state-of-the-art and a review

S Liu, J Feng, Y Tian, H Zhao, L Jin, B Ouyang… - Frontiers of …, 2022 - Springer
Silicon photonic platforms offer relevance to large markets in many applications, such as
optical phased arrays, photonic neural networks, programmable photonic integrated circuits …

High-speed Si-Ge avalanche photodiodes

B Wang, J Mu - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
High-speed optical interconnects of data centers and high performance computers (HPC)
have become the rapid development direction in the field of optical communication owing to …

Integrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits

C Yao, K Xu, W Zhang, M Chen, Q Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical spectroscopic sensors are a powerful tool to reveal light-matter interactions in many
fields. Miniaturizing the currently bulky spectrometers has become imperative for the wide …

Methods to achieve ultra-high quality factor silicon nitride resonators

X Ji, S Roberts, M Corato-Zanarella, M Lipson - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip resonators are promising candidates for applications in a wide range of integrated
photonic fields, such as communications, spectroscopy, biosensing, and optical filters, due …

Ultra-broadband mode size converter using on-chip metamaterial-based Luneburg lens

Y Zhang, Y He, H Wang, L Sun, Y Su - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
A Luneburg lens with a gradient index distribution is an aberration-free and coma-free
spherical lens. It has wide applications ranging from invisibility cloaks, illusion optics, and …

Broadband picometer-scale resolution on-chip spectrometer with reconfigurable photonics

C Yao, M Chen, T Yan, L Ming, Q Cheng… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Miniaturization of optical spectrometers is important to enable spectroscopic analysis to play
a role in in situ, or even in vitro and in vivo characterization systems. However, scaled-down …

Ultralow‐loss silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime

L Zhang, S Hong, Y Wang, H Yan, Y Xie… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics beyond the singlemode regime is applied for enabling ultralow‐loss
waveguide propagation for the fundamental mode even without any special fabrication …

Recent progress of integrated circuits and optoelectronic chips

Y Hao, S Xiang, G Han, J Zhang, X Ma, Z Zhu… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
Integrated circuits (ICs) and optoelectronic chips are the foundation stones of the modern
information society. The IC industry has been driven by the so-called “Moore's law” in the …

Ultracompact topological photonic switch based on valley-vortex-enhanced high-efficiency phase shift

H Wang, G Tang, Y He, Z Wang, X Li, L Sun… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Topologically protected edge states based on valley photonic crystals (VPCs) have been
widely studied, from theoretical verification to technical applications. However, research on …

High speed evanescent quantum‐dot lasers on Si

Y Wan, C Xiang, J Guo, R Koscica… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Significant improvements in III–V/Si epitaxy have pushed quantum dots (QDs) to the forefront
of Si photonics. For efficient, scalable, and multifunctional integrated systems to be …