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 …

Integrated lithium niobate photonics

Y Qi, Y Li - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator (LNOI) is a promising material platform for integrated
photonics due to single crystal LiNbO3 film's wide transparent window, high refractive index …

Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light

C Sun, MT Wade, Y Lee, JS Orcutt, L Alloatti… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Data transport across short electrical wires is limited by both bandwidth and power density,
which creates a performance bottleneck for semiconductor microchips in modern computer …

In situ 3D nanoprinting of free-form coupling elements for hybrid photonic integration

PI Dietrich, M Blaicher, I Reuter, M Billah, T Hoose… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Hybrid photonic integration combines complementary advantages of different material
platforms, offering superior performance and flexibility compared with monolithic …

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 …

Photonic packaging: transforming silicon photonic integrated circuits into photonic devices

L Carroll, JS Lee, C Scarcella, K Gradkowski… - Applied Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Dedicated multi-project wafer (MPW) runs for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from Si
foundries mean that researchers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) can now afford to …

Roadmap on all-optical processing

P Minzioni, C Lacava, T Tanabe, J Dong, X Hu… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

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 photonic integration platform—have we found the sweet spot?

DX Xu, JH Schmid, GT Reed… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current trend in silicon photonics towards higher levels of integration as well as the
model of using CMOS foundries for fabrication are leading to a need for standardization of …

Wafer-scale integration of group IIIV lasers on silicon using transfer printing of epitaxial layers

J Justice, C Bower, M Meitl, MB Mooney… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The hard-drive and electronic industries can benefit by using the properties of light for power
transfer and signalling. However, the integration of silicon electronics with lasers remains a …