Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

Silicon nitride passive and active photonic integrated circuits: trends and prospects

C Xiang, W Jin, JE Bowers - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The use of silicon nitride in integrated photonics has rapidly progressed in recent decades.
Ultra-low-loss waveguides based on silicon nitride are a favorable platform for the research …

Large Pockels effect in micro-and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

S Abel, F Eltes, JE Ortmann, A Messner, P Castera… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The electro-optical Pockels effect is an essential nonlinear effect used in many applications.
The ultrafast modulation of the refractive index is, for example, crucial to optical modulators …

Integrated microwave photonics

D Marpaung, J Yao, J Capmany - Nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances in photonic integration have propelled microwave photonic technologies
to new heights. The ability to interface hybrid material platforms to enhance light–matter …

An integrated optical modulator operating at cryogenic temperatures

F Eltes, GE Villarreal-Garcia, D Caimi, H Siegwart… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) operating at cryogenic temperatures are fundamental
building blocks required to achieve scalable quantum computing and cryogenic computing …

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

J Liu, H Tian, E Lucas, AS Raja, G Lihachev, RN Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
High-speed actuation of laser frequency is critical in applications using lasers and frequency
combs,, and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

Breaking the bandwidth limit of a high-quality-factor ring modulator based on thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xue, R Gan, K Chen, G Chen, Z Ruan, J Zhang, J Liu… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Growing global data traffic requires high-performance modulators with a compact size, a
large bandwidth, a low optical loss, and a small power consumption. A careful trade-off …