Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

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 …

Methods to achieve ultra-high quality factor silicon nitride resonators

X Ji, S Roberts, M Corato-Zanarella, M Lipson - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip resonators are promising candidates for applications in a wide range of integrated
photonic fields, such as communications, spectroscopy, biosensing, and optical filters, due …

Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

Open-access silicon photonics: Current status and emerging initiatives

A Rahim, T Spuesens, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

Silicon photonic platform for passive waveguide devices: materials, fabrication, and applications

Y Su, Y Zhang, C Qiu, X Guo… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

Silicon nitride photonic integration platforms for visible, near-infrared and mid-infrared applications

P Muñoz, G Micó, LA Bru, D Pastor, D Pérez… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Silicon nitride photonics is on the rise owing to the broadband nature of the material,
allowing applications of biophotonics, tele/datacom, optical signal processing and sensing …

Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review

N Li, CP Ho, S Zhu, YH Fu, Y Zhu, LYT Lee - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Integrated photonics based on silicon has drawn a lot of interests, since it is able to provide
compact solution for functional devices, and its fabrication process is compatible with the …

Expanding the silicon photonics portfolio with silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits

A Rahim, E Ryckeboer, AZ Subramanian… - Journal of lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The high index contrast silicon-on-insulator platform is the dominant CMOS compatible
platform for photonic integration. The successful use of silicon photonic chips in optical …

Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …