Germanium-based integrated photonics from near-to mid-infrared applications

D Marris-Morini, V Vakarin, JM Ramirez, Q Liu… - …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for
datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Progress of infrared guided-wave nanophotonic sensors and devices

Y Ma, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Convergence, 2020 - Springer
Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a low-loss germanium-on-silicon waveguide

A Della Torre, M Sinobad, R Armand, B Luther-Davies… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally demonstrate supercontinuum (SC) generation in a germanium-on-silicon
waveguide. This waveguide exhibits propagation loss between 1.2 dB/cm and 1.35 dB/cm in …

On-chip optical gas sensors based on group-IV materials

J Wu, G Yue, W Chen, Z Xing, J Wang, WR Wong… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compact and smart optical gas sensors have attracted significant attention over the past few
decades. Among the materials used for developing such gas sensors, group-IV materials …

Subwavelength on‐chip light focusing with bigradient all‐dielectric metamaterials for dense photonic integration

Z Ren, B Dong, Q Qiao, X Liu, J Liu, G Zhou, C Lee - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) provide a promising platform for miniaturized on‐chip
optical systems for communication, computation, and sensing applications. The dense …

Suspended low-loss germanium waveguides for the longwave infrared

A Osman, M Nedeljkovic, JS Penades, Y Wu, Z Qu… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Germanium is a material of high interest for mid-infrared (MIR) integrated photonics due to
its complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility and its wide …

[HTML][HTML] Suspended nanomembrane silicon photonic integrated circuits

R Guo, Q Lang, Z Zhang, H Hu, T Liu, J Wang, Z Cheng - Chip, 2024 - Elsevier
Leveraging the low linear and nonlinear absorption loss of silicon at mid-infrared (mid-IR)
wavelengths, silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have attracted significant attention …

Suspended germanium waveguides with subwavelength-grating metamaterial cladding for the mid-infrared band

A Sánchez-Postigo, A Ortega-Moñux… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, sensing and communication applications have fueled important
developments of group-IV photonics in the mid-infrared band. In the long-wave range, most …

Long-wave infrared integrated resonators in the 7.5–9 μm wavelength range

N Koompai, THN Nguyen, V Turpaud, J Frigerio… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present broadband on-chip resonators based on SiGe graded-index waveguides
operating in the long-wave infrared spectral range from 7.5 to 9.0 μm wavelength range. A …