The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

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 …

Efficient on-chip molecule and bio-agent detection can be achieved by accessing strong
molecular absorption lines in the mid-infrared, but it requires high output power broadband …

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 …

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

Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Supercontinuum (SC) has opened up possibilities for numerous applications in optical
communications, signal processing, metrology, and spectroscopy. Supercontinuum …

Optical devices are necessary to meet the anticipated future requirements for ultrafast and
ultrahigh bandwidth communication and computing. All optical information processing can …

We report the realization of a silicon–germanium on silicon ring resonator with high Q-factor
at mid-infrared wavelengths. The fabricated ring exhibits a loaded Q-factor of 236 000 at the …

Absorption spectroscopy based on supercontinuum generation in the mid-infrared is a
powerful technique to analyze the chemical composition of samples. Furthermore, phase …