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 …

Optical waveguides fabricated via femtosecond direct laser writing: processes, materials, and devices

J Li, C Cao, Y Qiu, C Kuang… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the most fundamental unit of photonic integration, optical waveguides offer the possibility
of develo** efficient and practical photonic chips by facilitating the on‐chip integration of …

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 …

Slow-light, band-edge waveguides for tunable time delays

ML Povinelli, SG Johnson, JD Joannopoulos - Optics Express, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We propose the use of slow-light, band-edge waveguides for compact, integrated, tunable
optical time delays. We show that slow group velocities at the photonic band edge give rise …

Silicon photonics: the next fabless semiconductor industry

M Hochberg, NC Harris, R Ding… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Something very surprising has been happening in photonics recently: the same foundries
and processes that were developed to build transistors are being repurposed to build chips …

Thermal annealing in hydrogen for 3-D profile transformation on silicon-on-insulator and sidewall roughness reduction

MCM Lee, MC Wu - Journal of Microelectromechanical systems, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast, effective process using hydrogen annealing is introduced to perform profile
transformation on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and to reduce sidewall roughness on silicon …

Ultralow-loss, high-density SOI optical waveguide routing for macrochip interconnects

G Li, J Yao, H Thacker, A Mekis, X Zheng, I Shubin… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report optical waveguides up to one meter long with 0.026 dB/cm loss fabricated in a
300nm thick SOI CMOS process. Combined with tight bends and compact interlayer grating …

Mid-infrared quantum optics in silicon

LM Rosenfeld, DA Sulway, GF Sinclair, V Anant… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Applied quantum optics stands to revolutionise many aspects of information technology,
provided performance can be maintained when scaled up. Silicon quantum photonics …

Optimized sensitivity of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) strip waveguide resonator sensor

S TalebiFard, S Schmidt, W Shi, WX Wu… - Biomedical optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Evanescent field sensors have shown promise for biological sensing applications. In
particular, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI)-nano-photonic based resonator sensors have many …

Sub-wavelength plasmonic modes in a conductor-gap-dielectric system with a nanoscale gap

I Avrutsky, R Soref, W Buchwald - Optics Express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We study guided modes in a conductor-gap-dielectric (CGD) system that includes a low-
index dielectric gap layer of deep sub-wavelength thickness sandwiched between a …