Subwavelength integrated photonics

P Cheben, R Halir, JH Schmid, HA Atwater, DR Smith - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

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 …

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 …

Hybrid and heterogeneous photonic integration

P Kaur, A Boes, G Ren, TG Nguyen, G Roelkens… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Increasing demand for every faster information throughput is driving the emergence of
integrated photonic technology. The traditional silicon platform used for integrated …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Subwavelength-grating metamaterial structures for silicon photonic devices

R Halir, A Ortega-Moñux, D Benedikovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

Library of single-etch silicon nitride grating couplers for low-loss and fabrication-robust fiber-chip interconnection

R Korček, D Medina Quiroz, Q Wilmart, S Edmond… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguides become an appealing choice to realize complex
photonic integrated circuits for applications in telecom/datacom transceivers, sensing, and …

High-efficiency reflector-less dual-level silicon photonic grating coupler

V Vitali, T Domínguez Bucio, C Lacava… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present the design and experimentally demonstrate a dual-level grating coupler with
subdecibel efficiency for a 220 nm thick silicon photonics waveguide which was fabricated …

Perfectly vertical surface grating couplers using subwavelength engineering for increased feature sizes

M Kamandar Dezfouli, Y Grinberg, D Melati… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present perfectly vertical grating couplers for the 220 nm silicon-on-insulator platform
incorporating subwavelength metamaterials to increase the minimum feature sizes and …