Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …
A Rahim, T Spuesens, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …
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 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 …
Photonic quantum technologies promise a revolution of the world of information processing, from simulation and computing to communication and sensing, thanks to the many …
Broadband mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy applications could greatly benefit from today's well-developed, highly scalable silicon photonics technology; however, this platform …
J Kang, Z Cheng, W Zhou, TH Xiao, KL Gopalakrisna… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present a focusing subwavelength grating (SWG) for efficient coupling of mid-infrared (mid-IR) light into suspended membrane Ge photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that enable …
A germanium-based platform with a large core-clad index contrast, germanium-on-silicon nitride waveguide, is demonstrated at mid-infrared wavelength. Simulations are performed …
Germanium is a material of high interest for mid-infrared (MIR) integrated photonics due to its complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility and its wide …