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 …

Review of recent progress on silicon nitride-based photonic integrated circuits

T Sharma, J Wang, BK Kaushik, Z Cheng… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonic devices used in the photonics industry over the past three decades have
helped in realizing large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) is …

Silicon quantum photonics

JW Silverstone, D Bonneau, JL O'Brien… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated quantum photonic applications, providing physically guaranteed communications
security, subshot-noise measurement, and tremendous computational power, are nearly …

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 …

Integrated photonics packaging: challenges and opportunities

L Ranno, P Gupta, K Gradkowski, R Bernson… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Packaging of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips is an essential and critical step before
they can be integrated into functional optoelectronic systems. Photonic packaging is …

Silicon Photonics: silicon nitride versus silicon-on-insulator

R Baets, AZ Subramanian, S Clemmen… - Optical fiber …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics typically builds on a silicon-on-insulator based high-index-contrast
waveguide system. Silicon nitride provides an alternative moderate-index-contrast system …

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 …

Highly efficient dual-level grating couplers for silicon nitride photonics

V Vitali, C Lacava, T Domínguez Bucio, FY Gardes… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We propose and numerically demonstrate a versatile strategy that allows designing highly
efficient dual-level grating couplers in different silicon nitride-based photonic platforms. The …

C-and O-band dual-polarization fiber-to-chip grating couplers for silicon nitride photonics

M Kohli, D Chelladurai, B Vukovic, D Moor… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Highly efficient coupling of light from an optical fiber to silicon nitride (SiN) photonic
integrated circuits (PICs) is experimentally demonstrated with simple and fabrication-tolerant …

Miniaturization of laser doppler vibrometers—a review

Y Li, E Dieussaert, R Baets - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) is a non-contact vibration measurement technique based
on the Doppler effect of the reflected laser beam. Thanks to its feature of high resolution and …