Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for
datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …

Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

Silicon photonics research can be dated back to the 1980s. However, the previous decade
has witnessed an explosive growth in the field. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well
studied in the past decade, and now most related efforts have been progressing toward …

With continued steep growth in the volume of data transmitted over optical networks there is
a widely recognized need for more sophisticated photonics technologies to forestall a …

Broadband mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy applications could greatly benefit from
today's well-developed, highly scalable silicon photonics technology; however, this platform …

The current trend in silicon photonics towards higher levels of integration as well as the
model of using CMOS foundries for fabrication are leading to a need for standardization of …

We present several fundamental photonic building blocks based on suspended silicon
waveguides supported by a lateral cladding comprising subwavelength grating …

Silicon photonics has gained great success mainly due to the promise of realizing compact
devices in high volume through the low-cost foundry model. It is burgeoning from laboratory …

This Feature highlights recent advances on mid-infrared thin-film waveguide technology and
on-chip photonics facilitating next-generation label-free chem/bio sensor and assay …