Photonic nanowires: from subwavelength waveguides to optical sensors

X Guo, Y Ying, L Tong - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanowires are one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures with comparatively large aspect ratios,
which can be useful in manipulating electrons, photons, plasmons, phonons, and atoms for …

Real photonic waveguides: guiding light through imperfections

D Melati, A Melloni, F Morichetti - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Real photonic waveguides are affected by structural imperfections due to fabrication
tolerances that cause scattering phenomena when the light propagates through. These …

Ultra-smooth silicon nitride waveguides based on the Damascene reflow process: fabrication and loss origins

MHP Pfeiffer, J Liu, AS Raja, T Morais, B Ghadiani… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
On-chip optical waveguides with low propagation losses and precisely engineered group
velocity dispersion are important to nonlinear photonic devices such as soliton microcombs …

Compact Brillouin devices through hybrid integration on silicon

B Morrison, A Casas-Bedoya, G Ren, K Vu, Y Liu… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A range of unique capabilities in optical and microwave signal processing and generation
have been demonstrated using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The need to harness …

Engineering nonlinearities in nanoscale optical systems: physics and applications in dispersion-engineered silicon nanophotonic wires

RM Osgood, NC Panoiu, JI Dadap, X Liu… - Advances in Optics …, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The nonlinear optics of Si photonic wires is discussed. The distinctive features of these
waveguides are that they have extremely large third-order susceptibility χ^(3) and dispersive …

Silicon-organic hybrid electro-optical devices

J Leuthold, C Koos, W Freude, L Alloatti… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Organic materials combined with strongly guiding silicon waveguides open the route to
highly efficient electro-optical devices. Modulators based on the so-called silicon-organic …

Roughness induced backscattering in optical silicon waveguides

F Morichetti, A Canciamilla, C Ferrari, M Torregiani… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We report on the direct observation of backscattering induced by sidewall roughness in high-
index-contrast optical waveguides based on total internal reflection. Our results demonstrate …

Solvent Recrystallization‐Enabled Green Amplified Spontaneous Emissions with an Ultra‐Low Threshold from Pinhole‐Free Perovskite Films

Y Liang, Q Shang, M Li, S Zhang, X Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Green and amplified spontaneous emissions with low thresholds are crucial for the
development of solution‐processable perovskite light sources. Although mixed‐cation …

Multiwaveguide implantable probe for light delivery to sets of distributed brain targets

AN Zorzos, ES Boyden, CG Fonstad - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Optical fibers are commonly inserted into living tissues such as the brain in order to deliver
light to deep targets for neuroscientific and neuroengineering applications such as …

Silicon organic hybrid technology—A platform for practical nonlinear optics

J Leuthold, W Freude, JM Brosi, R Baets… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cost-effective route to build electrically as well as optically controlled modulators in silicon
photonics is reviewed. The technology enables modulation at bit rates beyond 100 Gbit/s …