The ability to selectively redirect specific wavelengths of light has attracted a lot attention for
photonic crystal materials. Presently, there is a wealth of research relating to the fabrication …

Silicon photonics is a technology based on fabricating integrated optical circuits by using the
same paradigms as the dominant electronics industry. After twenty years of fervid …

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

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

The backscattering mean free path ξ, the average ballistic propagation length along a
waveguide, quantifies the resistance of slow light against unwanted imperfections in the …

Solitons are nonlinear waves present in diverse physical systems including plasmas, water
surfaces and optics. In silicon, the presence of two photon absorption and accompanying …

Solitons are nonlinear waves that exhibit invariant or recurrent behaviour as they propagate.
Precise control of dispersion and nonlinear effects governs soliton propagation and, through …

We demonstrate optical performance monitoring of in-band optical signal to noise ratio
(OSNR) and residual dispersion, at bit rates of 40Gb/s, 160Gb/s and 640Gb/s, using slow …

Slow light devices such as photonic crystal waveguides (PhCW) and coupled resonator
optical waveguides (CROW) have much promise for optical signal processing applications …

We observe unique absorption resonances in silver/silica multilayer-based epsilon-near-
zero (ENZ) metamaterials that are related to radiative bulk plasmon-polariton states of thin …