The high index contrast silicon-on-insulator platform is the dominant CMOS compatible
platform for photonic integration. The successful use of silicon photonic chips in optical …

We demonstrate, in both theory and experiment, 4-port, electrically tunable photonic filters
using silicon contra-directional couplers (contra-DCs) with uniform and phase-shifted …

We present a process calibration method for designing silicon-on-insulator (SOI) contra-
directional grating couplers (contra-DCs). Our method involves determining the coupling …

We discuss recent progress and challenges in realizing Bragg-grating devices on the
submicron silicon-on-insulator platform for next-generation optical communications …

Single-band add-drop filters using anti-reflection, contra-directional couplers Page 1 Single-Band
Add-Drop Filters Using Anti-Reflection, Contra-Directional Couplers Wei Shi∗, Mark Greenberg …

Provided is a waveguide-type optical diffraction grating. A waveguide core includes a
waveguide core that is asymmetric with respect to a thickness direction perpendicular to a …

This dissertation presents theoretical and experimental results for silicon optical ring
resonator filters that meet many of the typical commercial specifications for dense …

This thesis is a theoretical and experimental study of novel silicon photonic filters, such as
traveling-wave resonators (TWRs) and grating-assisted, contra-directional couplers (contra …

Silicon photonics, with great potential for bringing together two technological areas that have
transformed the last century—electronics and photonics—is gaining significant momentum …

Photonics lies at the heart of a revolution in communications and has shown great potential
in a wide range of applications from data links to biosensors, leading to the growing efforts in …