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 …

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Integrated photonics has profoundly affected a wide range of technologies underpinning
modern society,,–. The ability to fabricate a complete optical system on a chip offers …

Early works and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have
enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits,, modulators with improved half-wave voltage …

In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

The performance of silicon photonic components and integrated circuits has improved
dramatically in recent years. As a key enabler, heterogeneous integration not only provides …

Epitaxially grown quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging as an economical approach to
obtain on-chip light sources. Thanks to the three-dimensional confinement of carriers, QDs …

Stable laser emission with narrow linewidth is of critical importance in many applications,
including coherent communications, LIDAR, and remote sensing. In this work, the physics …

Monolithic integration of quantum dot (QD) gain materials onto Si photonic platforms via
direct epitaxial growth is a promising solution for on-chip light sources. Recent …

With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …