Silicon lasers have long been a goal for semiconductor scientists, and a number of important
breakthroughs in the past decade have focused attention on silicon as a photonic platform …

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 comprehensive resource to designing and constructing analog photonic links capable of
high RF performance Fundamentals of Microwave Photonics provides a comprehensive …

Raman scattering provides a convenient mechanism to generate or amplify light at
wavelengths where gain is not otherwise available. When combined with recent …

After dominating the electronics industry for decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the
material of choice for the photonics industry: the traditional stronghold of III-V …

Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Several kinds of nonlinear optical effects have
been observed in recent years using silicon waveguides, and their device applications are …

The growing demand for instant and reliable communication means that photonic circuits
are increasingly finding applications in optical communications systems. One of the prime …

The possibility of light generation and/or amplification in silicon has attracted a great deal of
attention for silicon-based optoelectronic applications owing to the potential for forming …

We report the demonstration of the first silicon Raman laser. Experimentally, pulsed Raman
laser emission at 1675 nm with 25 MHz repetition rate is demonstrated using a silicon …

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …