Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Although high-speed all-optical switches are expected to replace their electrical
counterparts in information processing, their relatively large size and power consumption …

Since the advent of quantum mechanics and the clear demonstration of the existence
of'matter waves', physicists have never failed to take advantage of concepts and theoretical …

We introduce and present experimental evaluations of loss and nonlinear optical response
in a waveguide and an optical resonator, both implemented with a silicon nitride/silicon …

The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

Recently, strongly modulated photonic crystals, fabricated by the state-of-the-art
semiconductor nanofabrication process, have realized various novel optical properties. This …

In contrast to a conventional symmetric Lorentzian resonance, Fano resonance is
predominantly used to describe asymmetric-shaped resonances, which arise from the …

We propose an ultrahigh quality factor (Q) photonic crystal slab nanocavity created by the
local width modulation of a line defect. We show numerically that this nanocavity has an …