Subwavelength integrated photonics

P Cheben, R Halir, JH Schmid, HA Atwater, DR Smith - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

Metasurface‐Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy: An Abundance of Materials and Functionalities

A John‐Herpin, A Tittl, L Kühner, F Richter… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared spectroscopy provides unique information on the composition and dynamics of
biochemical systems by resolving the characteristic absorption fingerprints of their …

Open-access silicon photonics: Current status and emerging initiatives

A Rahim, T Spuesens, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Larger-than-unity external optical field confinement enabled by metamaterial-assisted comb waveguide for ultrasensitive long-wave infrared gas spectroscopy

W Liu, Y Ma, X Liu, J Zhou, C Xu, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising
to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide …

Subwavelength-grating metamaterial structures for silicon photonic devices

R Halir, A Ortega-Moñux, D Benedikovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

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 …

Silicon photonic devices realized on refractive index engineered subwavelength grating waveguides-A review

NL Kazanskiy, MA Butt, SN Khonina - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
It is a remarkable and straightforward approach to customize the dispersion and nonlinear
properties of the photonic devices without varying the composition of the material by …

Heterogeneously integrated graphene/silicon/halide waveguide photodetectors toward chip-scale zero-bias long-wave infrared spectroscopic sensing

Y Ma, Y Chang, B Dong, J Wei, W Liu, C Lee - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy plays an important role in molecule identification and
quantification for widespread applications. Integrated photonics provides opportunities to …