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 …

In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well
studied in the past decade, and now most related efforts have been progressing toward …

Silicon photonics is widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

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 …

Surface‐enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) has attracted increasing attention due to the
potential of infrared spectroscopy in applications such as molecular trace sensing of solids …

Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

Flexible optoelectronics have attracted much attention in recent years for their potential
applications in healthcare and wearable devices. Narrow bandgap (NBG) semiconductor …

In this Letter, we report suspended silicon waveguides operating at a wavelength of 7.67 μm
with a propagation loss of 3.1±0.3 dB/cm. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of …

We present a focusing subwavelength grating (SWG) for efficient coupling of mid-infrared
(mid-IR) light into suspended membrane Ge photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that enable …