Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

Silicon photonic platform for passive waveguide devices: materials, fabrication, and applications

Y Su, Y Zhang, C Qiu, X Guo… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

Temporal solitons in microresonators driven by optical pulses

E Obrzud, S Lecomte, T Herr - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Continuous-wave laser-driven, high-Q Kerr–nonlinear optical microresonators have enabled
the generation of optical frequency combs, ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrashort optical …

Expanding the silicon photonics portfolio with silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits

A Rahim, E Ryckeboer, AZ Subramanian… - Journal of lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Soliton formation and spectral translation into visible on CMOS-compatible 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform

C Wang, J Li, A Yi, Z Fang, L Zhou, Z Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advancements in integrated soliton microcombs open the route to a wide range of
chip-based communication, sensing, and metrology applications. The technology translation …

Silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits for spectroscopic sensing on-a-chip

AZ Subramanian, E Ryckeboer, A Dhakal… - Photonics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
There is a rapidly growing demand to use silicon and silicon nitride (Si_3N_4) integrated
photonics for sensing applications, ranging from refractive index to spectroscopic sensing …

Optically reconfigurable quasi-phase-matching in silicon nitride microresonators

E Nitiss, J Hu, A Stroganov, CS Brès - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Quasi-phase-matching has long been a widely used approach in nonlinear photonics,
enabling efficient parametric frequency conversions such as second-harmonic generation …