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 …
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide …
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 …
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 …
Mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy plays an important role in molecule identification and quantification for widespread applications. Integrated photonics provides opportunities to …
The longwave infrared (LWIR) region of the spectrum spans 8 to 14 μm and enables high- performance sensing and imaging for detection, ranging, and monitoring. Chip-scale LWIR …
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) silicon photonics is expected to lead key advances in different areas including spectroscopy, remote sensing, nonlinear optics or free-space communications …
We demonstrate coherent supercontinuum generation spanning over an octave from a silicon germanium-on-silicon waveguide using∼ 200fs pulses at a wavelength of 4 µm. The …