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 …

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 …

Coupling strategies for silicon photonics integrated chips

R Marchetti, C Lacava, L Carroll, K Gradkowski… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

High-efficient coupler for thin-film lithium niobate waveguide devices

C Hu, A Pan, T Li, X Wang, Y Liu, S Tao, C Zeng… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN) devices have been widely used in optical communication and
nonlinear optics due to its attractive optical properties. The emergence of the thin-film lithium …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Photonic ADC: overcoming the bottleneck of electronic jitter

A Khilo, SJ Spector, ME Grein, AH Nejadmalayeri… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Accurate conversion of wideband multi-GHz analog signals into the digital domain has long
been a target of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developers, driven by applications in …

Silicon photonic integration in telecommunications

CR Doerr - Frontiers in Physics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Silicon photonics is the guiding of light in a planar arrangement of silicon-based materials to
perform various functions. We focus here on the use of silicon photonics to create …

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 …

Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

H Subbaraman, X Xu, A Hosseini, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of on-chip microresonator frequency combs

F Ferdous, H Miao, DE Leaird, K Srinivasan, J Wang… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Recently, on-chip comb generation methods based on nonlinear optical modulation in
ultrahigh-quality-factor monolithic microresonators have been demonstrated, where two …