Subwavelength integrated photonics

P Cheben, R Halir, JH Schmid, HA Atwater, DR Smith - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

Silicon photonics circuit design: methods, tools and challenges

W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon Photonics technology is rapidly maturing as a platform for larger‐scale photonic
circuits. As a result, the associated design methodologies are also evolving from component …

Metamaterial-inspired silicon nanophotonics

I Staude, J Schilling - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
The prospect of creating metamaterials with optical properties greatly exceeding the
parameter space accessible with natural materials has been inspiring intense research …

Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Sub-wavelength grating for enhanced ring resonator biosensor

J Flueckiger, S Schmidt, V Donzella, A Sherwali… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
While silicon photonic resonant cavities have been widely investigated for biosensing
applications, enhancing their sensitivity and detection limit continues to be an area of active …

Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

H Subbaraman, X Xu, A Hosseini, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many
photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been …

Monolithically integrated multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide platforms for 3-D photonic circuits and devices

WD Sacher, JC Mikkelsen, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and provide additional details about our progress on multilayer
silicon nitride (SiN)-on-silicon (Si) integrated photonic platforms. In these platforms, one or …

Subwavelength grating periodic structures in silicon-on-insulator: a new type of microphotonic waveguide

PJ Bock, P Cheben, JH Schmid, J Lapointe… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report on the experimental demonstration and analysis of a new waveguide principle
using subwavelength gratings. Unlike other periodic waveguides such as line-defects in a …