Review of silicon photonics technology and platform development

SY Siew, B Li, F Gao, HY Zheng, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

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 …

A photonic integrated circuit–based erbium-doped amplifier

Y Liu, Z Qiu, X Ji, A Lukashchuk, J He… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser
technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic …

Quantum circuits with many photons on a programmable nanophotonic chip

JM Arrazola, V Bergholm, K Brádler, TR Bromley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Growing interest in quantum computing for practical applications has led to a surge in the
availability of programmable machines for executing quantum algorithms,. Present-day …

High-yield, wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss, dispersion-engineered silicon nitride photonic circuits

J Liu, G Huang, RN Wang, J He, AS Raja, T Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low-loss photonic integrated circuits and microresonators have enabled a wide range of
applications, such as narrow-linewidth lasers and chip-scale frequency combs. To translate …

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

J Riemensberger, A Lukashchuk, M Karpov, W Weng… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-
based light detection and ranging (lidar) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance …

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

B Shen, L Chang, J Liu, H Wang, QF Yang, C **ang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have a wide range of applications in science and technology. An
important development for miniature and integrated comb systems is the formation of …

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

V Snigirev, A Riedhauser, G Lihachev, M Churaev… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Early works and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have
enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits,, modulators with improved half-wave voltage …

Silicon photonics for the visible and near-infrared spectrum

JKS Poon, A Govdeli, A Sharma, X Mu… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Emerging applications in quantum information, microscopy, biosensing, depth sensing, and
augmented reality demand miniaturized components in the visible (VIS) and near-infrared …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …