Silicon nitride in silicon photonics

DJ Blumenthal, R Heideman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) planar waveguide platform has enabled a broad class of low-
loss planar-integrated devices and chip-scale solutions that benefit from transparency over a …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Coherent solid-state LIDAR with silicon photonic optical phased arrays

CV Poulton, A Yaacobi, DB Cole, MJ Byrd, M Raval… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of coherent solid-state light
detection and ranging (LIDAR) using optical phased arrays in a silicon photonics platform …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Integrated microwave photonic filters

Y Liu, A Choudhary, D Marpaung… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Microwave signal filtering is a fundamental and central functionality in radio-frequency (RF)
systems. Underpinned by advanced integrated photonics technologies, emerging integrated …

Integrated lasers on silicon at communication wavelength: a progress review

N Li, G Chen, DKT Ng, LW Lim, J Xue… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …

All-optimized integrated RF photonic notch filter

Y Liu, J Hotten, A Choudhary, BJ Eggleton… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report a silicon nitride chip-based radio-frequency photonic notch filter with an
unprecedented performance including an RF gain of 8 dB, a record-low noise figure of 15.6 …

Ultra-high on-chip optical gain in erbium-based hybrid slot waveguides

J Rönn, W Zhang, A Autere, X Leroux… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient and reliable on-chip optical amplifiers and light sources would enable versatile
integration of various active functionalities on the silicon platform. Although lasing on silicon …

[HTML][HTML] A single-frequency single-resonator laser on erbium-doped lithium niobate on insulator

T Li, K Wu, M Cai, Z **ao, H Zhang, C Li, J **ang… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Erbium-doped lithium niobate on insulator (Er: LNOI) is a promising platform for photonic
integrated circuits as it adds gain to the LNOI system and enables on-chip lasers and …

Rare-earth ion doped Al2O3 for active integrated photonics

WAPM Hendriks, L Chang, CI Van Emmerik… - … in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is an emerging material in integrated photonics. It
exhibits a very broad transparency window from the UV to the mid-IR, very low propagation …