Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

This paper aims to review the state of the art of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
sensors for automotive applications, and particularly for automated vehicles, focusing on …

Direct epitaxial growth of III-Vs on silicon for optical emitters and detectors is an elusive goal.
Nanowires enable the local integration of high-quality III-V material, but advanced devices …

We present recent advancements of optical phased array LiDAR with record-performance
system demonstrations. First, we give an overview of the technology and how it combines …

Strained GeSn alloys are promising for realizing light emitters based entirely on group IV
elements. Here, we report GeSn microdisk lasers encapsulated with a SiN x stressor layer to …

The foundry development of integrated photonics has revolutionized today's optical
interconnect and datacenters. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rising of silicon …

As miniaturized solutions, mid-infrared (MIR) waveguide sensors are promising for label-free
compositional detection of mixtures leveraging plentiful absorption fingerprints. However …

The deployment of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) necessitates an integration platform
that is scalable, high-throughput, cost-effective, and power-efficient. Here we present a …

Direct epitaxial integration of III-V materials on Si offers substantial manufacturing cost and
scalability advantages over heterogeneous integration. The challenge is that epitaxial …

Efficient coupling of III–V light sources to silicon photonic circuits is one of the key
challenges of integrated optics. Important requirements are low coupling losses, as well as a …