Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

Topological features—global properties not discernible locally—emerge in systems ranging
from liquid crystals to magnets to fractional quantum Hall systems. A deeper understanding …

An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

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 …

Metal interconnections are expected to become the limiting factor for the performance of
electronic systems as transistors continue to shrink in size. Replacing them by optical …

On-chip optical buffers based on waveguide delay lines might have significant implications
for the development of optical interconnects in computer systems. Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) …

Polarization management is very important for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and their
applications. Due to geometrical anisotropy and fabrication inaccuracies, the characteristics …

High-index-contrast, wavelength-scale structures are key to ultracompact integration of
photonic integrated circuits. The fabrication of these nanophotonic structures in silicon-on …