[HTML][HTML] Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

[HTML][HTML] Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

Efficient mode transfer on a compact silicon chip by encircling moving exceptional points

Q Liu, S Li, B Wang, S Ke, C Qin, K Wang, W Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs) are branch point singularities of self-intersecting Riemann sheets,
and they can be observed in a non-Hermitian system with complex eigenvalues. It has been …

Low loss, large bandwidth fiber-chip edge couplers based on silicon-on-insulator platform

A He, X Guo, K Wang, Y Zhang, Y Su - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Fiber-chip edge couplers are extensively used in integrated silicon photonic for the coupling
of light between optical fibers and planar silicon waveguide circuits. Here, we experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Subwavelength structured silicon waveguides and photonic devices

L Sun, Y Zhang, Y He, H Wang, Y Su - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Subwavelength structures such as subwavelength gratings (SWGs) and subwavelength
metamaterials are capable of tailoring the optical properties of materials and controlling the …

A highly sensitive design of subwavelength grating double-slot waveguide microring resonator

MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy - Laser Physics Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We presented a novel design of a microring resonator based on a subwavelength grating
(SWG) double-slot waveguide (WG) due to its enhanced sensitivity. The paper is divided into …

Experimental demonstration of a broadband mode converter and multiplexer based on subwavelength grating waveguides

D González-Andrade, A Dias… - Optics & Laser …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mode-division multiplexing is a promising solution to enhance the capacity of current
photonic integrated circuits and thereby meet the growing demands of telecom and datacom …

High-Q Dielectric Mie-Resonant Nanostructures (Brief Review)

P Tonkaev, Y Kivshar - JETP Letters, 2020 - Springer
Future technologies underpinning high-performance optical communications, ultrafast
computations and compact biosensing will rely on densely packed reconfigurable optical …

All-optical modulation in chains of silicon nanoantennas

L Ding, D Morits, R Bakker, S Li, D Eschimese… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dielectric nanoantennas represent a new branch of nanophotonics that allows efficient
control of light scattering at nanoscale. Coupled nanoantennas can guide light on a chip …

Optical free-form couplers for high-density integrated photonics (OFFCHIP): a universal optical interface

S Yu, H Zuo, X Sun, J Liu, T Gu, J Hu - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Coupling of light between different photonic devices, for example on-chip waveguides,
fibers, and free-space optical elements, is an essential function enabling integrated optical …