In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

The polarization beam splitter (PBS) is an essential component in the polarization diversity
circuit to overcome the strong polarization dependence of silicon nanophotonic devices …

On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Mode-division multiplexing on an integrated photonic chip is critical for future optical
networks. High-order mode multiplexing is desired to increase the transmission capacity …

Silicon photonic biosensors hold the potential for highly accurate, yet low cost point-of-care
devices. Maximizing the sensitivity of the sensing chips while reducing the complexity and …

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

Properties of reflection and transmission spectral filters based on Bragg gratings in
subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterial waveguides on silicon-on-insulator platform …

Various passive photonic integrated devices have been developed successfully with silicon-
on-insulator (SOI) nanowires in the past decade. It is well known that SOI-nanowire …