Silicon nitride in silicon photonics

DJ Blumenthal, R Heideman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) planar waveguide platform has enabled a broad class of low-
loss planar-integrated devices and chip-scale solutions that benefit from transparency over a …

Status and potential of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for photonic integrated circuits

A Boes, B Corcoran, L Chang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) technology is revolutionizing the lithium niobate industry,
enabling higher performance, lower cost and entirely new devices and applications. The …

Self-calibrating programmable photonic integrated circuits

X Xu, G Ren, T Feleppa, X Liu, A Boes, A Mitchell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are dense assemblies of tunable elements
that provide flexible reconfigurability to enable different functions to be selected; however …

Silicon nitride passive and active photonic integrated circuits: trends and prospects

C Xiang, W Jin, JE Bowers - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The use of silicon nitride in integrated photonics has rapidly progressed in recent decades.
Ultra-low-loss waveguides based on silicon nitride are a favorable platform for the research …

High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics

C Xiang, J Guo, W Jin, L Wu, J Peters, W Xie… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides with ultra-low optical loss enable integrated photonic
applications including low noise, narrow linewidth lasers, chip-scale nonlinear photonics …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

Sub-hertz fundamental linewidth photonic integrated Brillouin laser

S Gundavarapu, GM Brodnik, M Puckett, T Huffman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Spectrally pure lasers, the heart of precision high-end scientific and commercial
applications, are poised to make the leap from the laboratory to integrated circuits …

Low-loss Si3N4 TriPleX optical waveguides: Technology and applications overview

CGH Roeloffzen, M Hoekman, EJ Klein… - IEEE journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview of the most recent developments and improvements to the low-loss TriPleX Si 3
N 4 waveguide technology is presented in this paper. The TriPleX platform provides a suite …

High speed simulation and freeform optimization of nanophotonic devices with physics-augmented deep learning

M Chen, R Lupoiu, C Mao, DH Huang, J Jiang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We introduce WaveY-Net, a hybrid data-and physics-augmented convolutional neural
network that can predict electromagnetic field distributions with ultrafast speeds and high …

Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications

D Sun, Y Zhang, D Wang, W Song, X Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, integrated photonics has attracted considerable interest owing to its wide
application in optical communication and quantum technologies. Among the numerous …