Abstract Silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are of great interest due to
their extremely low propagation loss and higher integration capabilities. The number of …

Silicon nitride (SiN) has surged into prominence as a material for photonic-integrated circuits
(PICs) in the past decade, well regarded for its broadband transparency, compatibility with …

The design, fabrication, and characterization of a silicon nitride waveguide polarization
rotator and polarization beam splitter that operate with a polarization extinction ratio (PER) …

Material absorption is a key limitation in nanophotonic systems; however, its characterization
is often obscured by scattering and diffraction. Here we show that nanomechanical …

In the past few decades, silicon photonics with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS) process compatibility has been well developed and successfully applied to …

General-purpose programmable photonic processors rely on the large-scale integration of
beamsplitters and reconfigurable phase shifters, distributed within unit cells or photonic …

A highly sensitive silicon photonic temperature sensor based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
platform has been proposed and demonstrated. A two-mode nano-slot waveguide device …

Nonlinear integrated optics leveraging platforms with high nonlinear figure of merit offer
energy efficient optical signal processing capabilities. Over the last five years, CMOS …

Programmable integrated photonics is an emerging research field due to its range of
applications, from data processing to computing. Phase change materials (PCMs) on …

We present micro-ring resonators (MRRs) with intrinsic quality factors as high as 135,000
fabricated on a highly nonlinear CMOS-compatible deuterated silicon-rich nitride (SRN: D) …