Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

Silicon photonics has been a very buoyant research field in the last several years mainly
because of its potential for telecom and datacom applications. However, prospects of using …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well
studied in the past decade, and now most related efforts have been progressing toward …

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 …

Besides being the foundational material for microelectronics, crystalline silicon has long
been used for the production of infrared lenses and mirrors. More recently, silicon has …

Silicon waveguides are now widely used to guide radiation in the near-infrared, mainly in
the wavelength range of 1.1–2.2 µm. While low-loss waveguides at longer wavelengths in …

We propose that the operational wavelength of waveguided Si-based photonic integrated
circuits and optoelectronic integrated circuits can be extended beyond the 1.55 µm telecom …

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 …

Silicon photonics research can be dated back to the 1980s. However, the previous decade
has witnessed an explosive growth in the field. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology …