Coupling strategies for silicon photonics integrated chips

R Marchetti, C Lacava, L Carroll, K Gradkowski… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

300-mm monolithic silicon photonics foundry technology

K Giewont, K Nummy, FA Anderson… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A competitive 300-mm silicon photonics foundry technology has been developed by
GLOBALFOUNDRIES for general availability, which takes advantage of advanced CMOS …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the global design space of nanophotonic components using machine learning pattern recognition

D Melati, Y Grinberg, M Kamandar Dezfouli… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Nanophotonics finds ever broadening applications requiring complex components with
many parameters to be simultaneously designed. Recent methodologies employing …

Silicon photonic circuit design using rapid prototyping foundry process design kits

L Chrostowski, H Shoman, M Hammood… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A successful design, fabrication and test of silicon photonic circuits requires design tools,
process design kits (PDKs), foundries for fabrication, and test facilities. This paper describes …

An ultracompact GRIN‐lens‐based spot size converter using subwavelength grating metamaterials

JM Luque‐González, R Halir… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Graded‐index materials offer virtually complete control over light propagation in integrated
photonic chips but can be challenging to implement. Here, an anisotropic graded‐index …

Design of a broadband polarization splitter based on anisotropy-engineered tilted subwavelength gratings

A Herrero-Bermello, JM Luque-González… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization management is of paramount importance in integrated optics, particularly for
highly birefringent photonic platforms such as silicon-on-insulator. In this paper, we present …

Pedestal subwavelength grating metamaterial waveguide ring resonator for ultra-sensitive label-free biosensing

CW Chang, X Xu, S Chakravarty, HC Huang… - Biosensors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Bragg filter bandwidth engineering in subwavelength grating metamaterial waveguides

P Cheben, J Čtyroký, JH Schmid, S Wang, J Lapointe… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Fiber-to-chip fusion splicing for low-loss photonic packaging

J Nauriyal, M Song, R Yu, J Cardenas - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonic devices are poised to enter high-volume markets such as data
communications, telecommunications, biological sensing, and optical phased arrays …

On-chip Fourier-transform spectrometers and machine learning: a new route to smart photonic sensors

A Herrero-Bermello, J Li, M Khazaei, Y Grinberg… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Miniaturized silicon photonics spectrometers capable of detecting specific absorption
features have great potential for mass market applications in medicine, environmental …