The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating
characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave …

Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

We demonstrate mid-infrared ring resonators fabricated in an In 0.53 Ga 0.47 As/InP
materials platform operating at a wavelength of approximately 5.2 μm with quality factors …

In this article, the potential of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for modern gas sensing
applications is discussed. Optical detection systems can be found at the high-end of the …

Heterogeneous integration enables the construction of silicon (Si) photonic systems, which
are fully integrated with a range of passive and active elements including lasers and …

Mid-infrared (MIR) silicon photonic systems show great promise for miniaturizing a variety of
sensing and detection technologies. Rapid progress has been made in recent years, and …

The standard platform for silicon photonics has been ridge or channel waveguides
fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. SOI waveguides are so versatile and the …

High peak power, room-temperature operation in the long wave infrared spectral region is
reported for double-channel, ridge waveguide quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) …

Silicon photonics is a promising integrated-optics platform for optical communication and
sensing applications. Integrating 2–3 μm wavelength widely tunable lasers on silicon …