An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

Optical technology is poised to revolutionize short-reach interconnects. The leading
candidate technology is silicon photonics, and the workhorse of such an interconnect is the …

The unprecedented ability of nanometallic (that is, plasmonic) structures to concentrate light
into deep-subwavelength volumes has propelled their use in a vast array of nanophotonics …

The excitation of surface plasmons (SPs) in metallic nanoparticles (NPs) induces optical
properties hardly achievable in other optical materials, yielding a wide range of applications …

The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

Silicon p^+-in^+ diode Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators having an ultra-compact
length of 100 to 200 μm are presented. These devices exhibit high modulation efficiency …

Photonic miniaturization requires seamless integration of linear and nonlinear optical
components to achieve passive and active functions simultaneously. Among the available …

The majority of the most successful optical modulators in silicon demonstrated in recent
years operate via the plasma dispersion effect and are more specifically based upon free …

Silicon photonics is a promising technology for addressing memory bandwidth limitations in
future many-core processors. This article first introduces a new monolithic silicon-photonic …

Future manycore processors will require energy-efficient, high-throughput on-chip networks.
Silicon-photonics is a promising new interconnect technology which offers lower power …