Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

The exponential growth of information stored in data centers and computational power
required for various data-intensive applications, such as deep learning and AI, call for new …

Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics,
including all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks, and on-chip ultrafast …

Slow light with a remarkably low group velocity is a promising solution for buffering and time-
domain processing of optical signals. It also offers the possibility for spatial compression of …

Although high-speed all-optical switches are expected to replace their electrical
counterparts in information processing, their relatively large size and power consumption …

Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Several kinds of nonlinear optical effects have
been observed in recent years using silicon waveguides, and their device applications are …

We introduce and present experimental evaluations of loss and nonlinear optical response
in a waveguide and an optical resonator, both implemented with a silicon nitride/silicon …

Recently, strongly modulated photonic crystals, fabricated by the state-of-the-art
semiconductor nanofabrication process, have realized various novel optical properties. This …

We demonstrate experimentally all-optical switching on a silicon chip at telecom
wavelengths. The switching device comprises a compact ring resonator formed by horizontal …

We experimentally and theoretically clarified that a Fano resonant system based on a
coupled optical cavity has better performance when used as an all-optical switch than a …