Silicon photonics for the visible and near-infrared spectrum

JKS Poon, A Govdeli, A Sharma, X Mu… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Emerging applications in quantum information, microscopy, biosensing, depth sensing, and
augmented reality demand miniaturized components in the visible (VIS) and near-infrared …

[HTML][HTML] Free-space applications of silicon photonics: a review

CY Hsu, GZ Yiu, YC Chang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has recently expanded its applications to delivering free-space emissions
for detecting or manipulating external objects. The most notable example is the silicon …

Monolithically integrated, broadband, high-efficiency silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors in a visible-light integrated photonics platform

Y Lin, Z Yong, X Luo, SS Azadeh, JC Mikkelsen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Visible and near-infrared spectrum photonic integrated circuits are quickly becoming a key
technology to address the scaling challenges in quantum information and biosensing. Thus …

Power-efficient silicon nitride thermo-optic phase shifters for visible light

Z Yong, H Chen, X Luo, A Govdeli, H Chua… - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate power-efficient, thermo-optic, silicon nitride waveguide phase shifters for
blue, green, and yellow wavelengths. The phase shifters operated with low power …

Neurophotonics: a comprehensive review, current challenges and future trends

BJ Barros, JPS Cunha - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The human brain, with its vast network of billions of neurons and trillions of synapses
(connections) between diverse cell types, remains one of the greatest mysteries in science …

Optical phased array neural probes for beam-steering in brain tissue

WD Sacher, FD Chen, H Moradi-Chameh, X Liu… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Implantable silicon neural probes with integrated nanophotonic waveguides can deliver
patterned dynamic illumination into brain tissue at depth. Here, we introduce neural probes …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated neurophotonics: toward dense volumetric interrogation of brain circuit activity—at depth and in real time

LC Moreaux, D Yatsenko, WD Sacher, J Choi, C Lee… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
We propose a new paradigm for dense functional imaging of brain activity to surmount the
limitations of present methodologies. We term this approach" integrated neurophotonics"; it …

Development of nano-and microdevices for the next generation of biotechnology, wearables and miniaturized instrumentation

LRG Palacios, AG Bracamonte - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This is a short communication based on recent high-impact publications related to how
various chemical materials and substrate modifications could be tuned for nano-and …

Nanostructured photonics probes: a transformative approach in neurotherapeutics and brain circuitry

BA Taha, AJ Addie, AQ Saeed, AJ Haider… - Neuroscience, 2024 - Elsevier
Neuroprobes that use nanostructured photonic interfaces are capable of multimodal
sensing, stimulation, and imaging with unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution. In …

Implantable photonic neural probes with 3D-printed microfluidics and applications to uncaging

X Mu, FD Chen, KM Dang, MGK Brunk, J Li… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Advances in chip-scale photonic-electronic integration are enabling a new generation of
foundry-manufacturable implantable silicon neural probes incorporating nanophotonic …