The proliferation of Internet-of-Things has promoted a wide variety of emerging applications
that require compact, lightweight, and low-cost optical spectrometers. While substantial …

Abstract Interest in 3D (3-dimensional) printed optics and photonics by both industry and
academic researchers is burgeoning, due to the unique features availed by 3D printing not …

Packaging of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips is an essential and critical step before
they can be integrated into functional optoelectronic systems. Photonic packaging is …

Conventional electronic and photonic devices are inherently 2D and rigid because of the
substrates on which they are fabricated. However, the world is not flat and stiff: There are …

Since its advent in the 1970s, optical tweezers have been widely deployed as a preferred
non-contact technique for manipulating microscale objects. On-chip integrated optical …

Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

Nanophotonic spiking neural networks (SNNs) based on neuron-like excitable
subwavelength (submicrometre) devices are of key importance for realizing brain-inspired …

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have long been considered as disruptive platforms that
revolutionize optics. Building on the mature industrial foundry infrastructure for electronic …

Efficient fiber‐to‐chip coupling has been a major hurdle to cost‐effective packaging and
scalable interconnections of photonic integrated circuits. Conventional photonic packaging …

Quantum and neuromorphic computational platforms in integrated photonic circuits require
next-generation optical functionalities. Often, increasingly complex on-chip light-routing that …